Recent content by RRiley99

For all of you that have finished your undergrad: I always hear about people burning out, which is completely understandable, given how stressful classes can be. But how do you differentiate between a burn out and a message that it might be time to change your major? I feel like I have a small...

We do have a textbook, but only one of my classes follows it, and it's hardly "following". I'm thinking of just spending several hours on Sunday nights reviewing the previous weeks homeworks and just recalling the jist of how I did them. That way I hopefully don't forget long term.

1) I'm currently taking several 400 level physics classes, E&M2, Classical2 and Quantum1. We've finally reached the point where we are actually learning new things, not just building off things we learned over the last few years. 2) We have online lecture notes, which are generally terrible...

I seem to have gotten to a point where I can't do problems on my own. (I'm a junior in college right now) I sit down every Sunday night and go over my weeks homework and see what I can and can't do, then I head to office hours/class to work it out with a TA/prof. Now it's just gotten to a point...

Howdy y'all, I posted a ways back about an interest in science policy, concerning internships. Now I'm more or less asking about possible classes to take. I am in the process of a political science minor and I need a few classes to take and I'd prefer them to be useful or interesting. If...

I'm interested in that as well. And I think I could get by in Washington. My previous boss of 4 years was a wacko, so I've gotten used to shrugging/laughing things off. Lastly, I am looking for a role in Government, like Dept of Energy, State Dept, DoD etc. I'm sure politics would be...

Cool, well thank a lot everyone. I've walked away under the impression that as long as I do something I'm better off than nothing! Hahaha. -Robert

Thanks! Advise taken. Im only in a hurry bc I want to learn so much in so little time haha. And don't worry, I'm enjoying college, def getting the "most" out of it!

Yeah, I seem to understand that reasoning a bit more now haha. Have you ever tried to teach yourself little things instead? Like I taught myself a good chuck of matlab, and that worked out very well. But when I tried to look at Lin Alg, I sputtered out pretty fast.

Howdy, I didn't find anything particularly useful when I searched for this, which surprised me! Anyway, over break, I decided to buy my textbooks early and to semi teach myself the basic concepts before I actually take the class. And as break is coming to a close, I looking back and I...

Howdy everyone! Im a Soph at UIUC studying Physics. I'm really interested in going into government, especially policy. Not sure where, but science policy in general. I planning on majoring in Physics, minoring in Political Science, and studying Econ here and there. I don't really know where to...

Howdy everyone. 1. Ok, so we have and electromagnetic wave propagating through a vacuum. We know wavelength, and the magnitudes of B in the x and y directions. Also, B=[Bx(i)+By(j)]cos(kz+ωt). That's all the prereq stuff. 2. So Intensity is: <P>/A & (1/2)Bmax^2/Zo I'm def feeling...

Hi yall, I am a freshman at UIUC, just started my second semester. I'm a physics major and I love physics bc it's actually challenging and it's just generally awesome. I kind of managed to land on probation last semester bc of not applying myself until the end of the semester; let's just say...