Recent content by jhicks

Interesting. Currently, about 40% of my grad salary goes straight into paying my rent.

This thread is just asking for a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to pop in.

It definitely is. Condensed matter has probably the greatest chance of any subdiscipline to get industry funding. For example, Intel sponsors a lot of my lab's work. Optics is not bad either.

When I was a TA I definitely saw many situations of cheating. The class I graded for was probably a 2nd or 3rd year class. Sometimes, people would turn in the same work (and of course since they were friends they would turn it in together so it was that much easier to spot), but since the...

World of Warcraft. Some people go absolutely crazy for good accounts. I have had friends that have sold theirs for over two thousand dollars.

Well you can also make a city in a couple days. I had invested some of my down time over two years into this, so I got a bit sentimental. I ended up getting rid of it today -- thanks for snapping me to my senses! I'm not quite sure I will take a vacation, but a piece of furniture or two...

That's very funny that this has been brought up here. I was JUST reading an article in Time Magazine about WiTricity and they talked about transmitting electrons wirelessly. I just shook my head. OP you sound exactly like me in HS. I absolutely devoured the books by Kaku, Davies and...

Dynamic content might be something that is generated using server-side scripting such as PHP or ASP. These forums, for example, access a large database based on what variables we give it (e.g. thread #, post#) that contains a data structure that holds every forum post, so they're considered...

Well, it's not exactly a collectible, but some might consider it worth obtaining. Currently, I'm considering selling off an account I have in a video game. I got a credible offer of about 500 dollars, but I still play it sometimes and it's somewhat valuable to me from a sentimental point of...

Microsoft Visio is pretty good also. Adobe Illustrator is more complicated but it might also work.

Please tell me she got double credit for most of that coursework/research between the PhD and MD

What are you specifically looking at doing? Anyway, much of the theoretical discussion of carbon nanotubes is also applicable to graphene. Therefore, I suggest Saito and Dresselhaus(es), Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes. Currently, there are two different types of graphene research...

It's really hard to get into the best schools for undergrad if you aren't extremely well-rounded. Some highly qualified people get rejected from schools like MIT because MIT doesn't want a one-dimensional undergrad class. These same people who got rejected for undergrad have a much better shot...

It doesn't get you into a school but it will get you rejected if you blow it off. You should score around the average for the school you want to get into. An 800 is 80%-ile for EE's. This means it's all the more important to get an 800 because schools will be able to fill most of their...

A lot will hinge on your GRE score. Get above about 750 quant and 550 verbal and you'll get into a top 10 easily. EE programs aren't very competitive compared to say the hard sciences.