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Thanks! I found your post doubly helpful.

I'm reading Flanders' Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences and I have some issues with problems 2 and 3 in chapter 3, which appear to ask the reader to compute the pullback a mapping from X to Y applied to a form over X, and I'm not sure how to interpret such a thing...

I don't think it's a zen thing at all. I think physics and mathematics are deeper, more serious, and more broadly applicable subjects than anything else, despite the popular notion that a given number of years studying anything makes one just as educated as someone who studied something else for...

Thanks for your advice. That thread, however, is more about whether you should go to a physics grad program, and takes it for granted that you can get into one. I already know I want to, and I really just want to know how to prepare myself.

I'm trying to figure a way to get into a physics program, from a less-than-ideal position. I've seen a lot of advice on this forum aimed at college students, which is perfectly reasonable, but unfortunately I don't have a blank slate. Anyway, here's a brief summary of my rotten little CV: I went...