Recent content by qanx

Congratulations on a great opportunity! Sounds like you are on the right track :) In my experience with interviews, although they will be interested in how much you already know about them, they care more about you. So showing that you know what you are getting into is an important first...

Choppy: Thanks for the response :) Actually I found that I was happiest at SSP (which I've mentioned elsewhere), even though we were writing our own programs to do asteroid orbital determinations (nothing "glitzy" that involved quantum mechanics or etc.) I didn't even mind my REU where I doing...

I didn't read all the responses in depth, but I can tell you about what I did when I was your age. I was atypical, but one of the things I did was start to take all my classes via a local community college (they had a few other honors HSers around, so they were used to "my situation"). If you...

My "Quarter Life Crisis" :( I have no idea what I want to do. As a kid I attended several summer gifted programs for physics/math/astronomy (believe it or not), and I always thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do: study astrophysics. But I also liked studying everything else. And I do mean...

Hello, I am a junior undergrad taking an advanced senior/1st yr grad lab. I've been having some difficulty with a few points in the lab materials we were given (we are analyzing the reflectance spectra for GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells). We were given the effective mass of the electrons, heavy and...

How do I go about writing the personal statements? Originally I was hoping to write one essay, then tailor it a bit to each program. Then I discovered that each program had such varied requirements, including not only content but length, that it wouldn't be possible. For example on the...

I am currently applying to several physics REUs for this summer, in the hopes of being accepted into at least one of them! Since this is my first attempt at this endeavor I am a bit concerned as most applications include sections for "Honors and Awards" and etc. Currently I am a Junior with no...