Recent content by SLACer

Really divergent interests of mine (biophysics and earth/environmental science) are somehow now both viable options for my future, as UW and SIO (of UC San Diego) both accepted me and now I must pick. Visits to both and weeks of deliberation have not broken a tie between these two, and there is...

This does not make complete sense when you see the number of the sample size (for the physics masters, N=224). Now, the response rate for this survey was 41%, but that's for both 2009/2010 combined. So, that means that the number of students entering physics grad programs those years was...

While browsing through one of the AIP's relatively recent publications (written in 2012 concerning the classes of 2009/2010) I found some information I thought was out of line with the common conception that masters-only students are rarely if ever funded. According to the publication (see page...