Recent content by gizmo6

Looking at your post, first I have to congratulate you on your use of words, spelling and punctuation. For your age you are incredibly smart, I think you are underestimating yourself. My advice to you is study maths in your own time if you enjoy it that much and try and do problems randomly...

I've posted here before regarding wtf to do about education. I've found the perfect thing... a preperatory course that sets me up to study physics... and it's FREE! :biggrin: It's a night course so I can still work full time. But I want to work somewhere that I can gain additional...

So far I've seen a chick with pi tattoed on her arm. Then I've seen a really detailed tattoo of voyager 2 with the night sky in the background. I could imagine that one was painful!

It's already a law in NZ that you can't text or phone whilst driving. I even saw a guy texting while riding a motorcycle once :eek: WTF!

What is it about maths that you find so hard? I am studying maths at the moment, it's not the numbers that are tricky, it's the sequence of steps you have to take to get an answer that I struggle with. I can master how to divide fractions one day, but a week later I forget exactly HOW to divide...

Thanks for the advice, but it is now 2011, not 1945 and the population is now 7 billion not 2 billion. Competition is more fierce than ever. Options are available, but they are highly competitive, especially since in NZ universities are being more and more picky and reducing class numbers every...

In a weird kind of way that's one of the things that attracts me to physics. Yes it's hard, but it's a lot of fun solving the problems and trying to "get it". My brain is super hyper active and it gets me into a lot of trouble at jobs. I'm typing this now at work and I could get into some...

Thanks for that, that is what I'm trying to do, the correspondence doesn't work for me because if I get stuck, I've got no one to help me through it. It's actually really difficult to find that kind of school here, I can't find anything close to that! I'll keep looking though cause that's...

I'm from New Zealand. Land of the great Earnest Rutherford :-)

This is a little long but bare with me, I need help from some experts. So I left high school when I was 15. Not because I was stupid, dumb, illiterate or whatever, it's because I was bullied. But I won't go into that. I made a career decision at 17 that I would be a custom motorcycle builder...

The reason I ask am I too old is because by the time I finish my 5 years at university (if i enrolled to start early 2013) I will be 27.5 and the air force has a maximum age restriction for jet pilots of 27.5. The selection process can take up to 6 months and then I might be too old. Stupid me...

Do YOU know math?

Okie dokie! P.S maths was never a strong point, but I believe that was because everyone I knew always had a negative view on maths, so it rubbed off on me, but I think I can learn to enjoy maths if it means I get to do what I love, agreed?

Am I chasing something impossible? Heya, I am a 21 year old female who is so confused as with what to do! I'll give a bit of a background so someone can help me a bit more. Sorry it may be a bit long, but just bare with me. When I was young at high school I was deadset on becoming an...