Recent content by pnptruong

Hi everyone, I'm an undergrad student who is looking for different research interests to specialize into get ready for grad school. At my university, there's a well-known professor in the field of computational combustion, and he offered me a research position. I'm not sure if, considering the...

passion, That's what I think every person at MIT has.

So would you recommend a Wall Street job for a person with many family responsibilities? (My family is living in a sloppy apartment now. I want to buy my parents a house and send my sister to a good private school on the east coast...)

Hi everyone, I have been on this forum since December last year. I have read many interesting threads by twofish-quants and many other members about the possibility of working in Wall Street after obtaining a Physics PhD. Although I understand that a career in Wall Street is really financial...

Hi, I heard that in order to get into top graduate physics(and engineering) programs, people should go to research universities that have professor obtaining their PhD degrees from top universities such as MIT, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Caltech. Is that true? I feel really bad about my recent...

I know that I sound like a pure math major. But as I said above, a major in Math is not in my plan anymore because it's not a realistic option. I just want to find a science/engineering major that does not just simply apply the existent equations and laws, but also gives me an opportunity the...

Yeah I used to consider Math as a major. However, math is not in my plan anymore as I realize I'm not as good as a lot of people( I immigrated from an Asian country, so I have seen so many math beasts in my life), and a BS in Math won't help me get a job making enough money to feed my family. My...

I'm talking about geophysics here. I'm interested in developing computational techniques and problem solving (like doing number theory problems or working on proofs.)

As I have stated, I'm choosing a major for college and geophysics appears to be a good fit for me. I just want to make sure I will do a lot of math in geophysics as math is my favorite subject and I want to be challenged in my college years. In addition, I also want to see if quantitative and...

So geophysics has as much math as physics and astronomy?

Hi, I'm a high school senior who has strong a interest in Math(taking DE in my senior year). After doing some research on the Geophysical engineering program at the local university: Colorado School of Mines, I think that geophysics is a very interesting because it involves a lot of travels...