Recent content by FalconOne

I went to a no-name school in the US and got into some Top 20 grad schools. It all depends on you.

Apply to UT-San Antonio. It's a good program, but it's brand new and growing. The application isn't due for another while yet, and I'm fairly confident you can get in.

Simple solution: move out. You're 24 years old, you are more than capable of living on your own. On Craigslist, I posted an ad asking if there were any older people who needed help cooking and cleaning around the house in exchange for me taking a room. There were TONS of people that responded...

I don't think what you're doing is necessarily wrong. When I came into physics, I had never taken intro physics, and so the initial homework sets for me were nearly impossible for my upper level courses. I would look at the solution to a similar (not identical) problem to learn the general...

This. Many people who get close to airplanes are mechanics. :-/

I can quickly nip it in the bud when going home is at stake- or push ups... But what do you do with professors?

I have an eye twitch/tic and I hate it. There's really nothing I can do about it and I can't take medication for it. But what I hate more than my twitch is the response people, physicists in particular, have toward it. I present well, but I almost always get docked points because my "presence"...

I haven't. Once I have, I will certainly come back for more advice. I will especially need advice for grading!

Hi! I'm an Army officer. I'm assuming you would want to go AFROTC? I will answer these questions as if you do. Extremely competitive. Hardly a guarantee. In fact, it's hardly even a fair gamble. At least you're young. For a pilot slot in the Army, the average GPA was about a 3.8. With how...

Hello everyone, I just graduated from college, but I never took introductory physics. Of course, this lead to some "interesting" situations (learning about friction and torque in classical mechanics, for instance). Since I'm going to graduate school, I'm purchasing textbooks, but I have...

I think your research matters more than the name of your school. So don't write yourself off if you don't get into one of the top schools.

I that GPA in my undergrad. We had relatively small class sizes (about 12) and my professor did not curve very much. (I was the only one with an A in quite a few of my classes, including lab, optics, and quantum.) My professor expected a lot out of his students, and many students simply didn't...

I responded to your message. Anyone who was wondering - the Google doc has been taken down.

I'm in the US, but my grandparents came from Poland! I just live in a really rural area. Verizon Wireless doesn't service us, I am on dial up, etc. Also, out of a high school class of almost 150, only 20 of us went to college. Not all of us graduated.

Self-imposed quotas are illegal. They technically can't exist. It's technically illegal for an employer or school to take my military obligation into consideration when deciding if they are going to accept me. Unfortunately, one school told me that if I was seriously interested in their...