Recent content by tmc

The mathematical ladder is twice the level of difficulty.

Getting a paper rejected by the editor, before it even made its way to the reviewers, is rarely a good thing

Considering it's been five months, I hope he's found something by now

I'm trying to convert everyone to using Matlab's instrument control toolbox instead of labview 6 lines of code are much neater than 9 boxes and 21 arrows.

C/C++, Fortran and Matlab are the main ones. Java if you're considering working outside academia. Labview if you're suicidal and wish to learn the worst piece of software ever created by man.

No, UCLA has not sent out their first wave yet

No, statisticians are also full-time programmers What you would want is fundamental theory or pure math, both of which have very, very little work in industry.

Computational Fluid Dynamics and modeling are both pretty much full-time programming. In fact, they're pretty much the two areas of physics and engineering which use the most programming.

Do something you enjoy. If you hate your courses, you won't get good grades. It's never easy to pull a 3.7+ in physics anywhere, but it's definitely possible with enough hard work. Why do you want to go to med school?

If you somehow found a novel way of solving a quadratic equation, it would be publishable.

Just to be clear, your GPA is out of 4.3 right?

Are you certain that what you're doing has not been done before?

For McMaster, if you go here: http://registrar.mcmaster.ca/calendar/year2008/sec_594.htm you will see the requirements for admittance to the physics program (i.e., list of first-year courses needed): 30 units including 6 units MATH 1A03, 1AA3 with an average of at least 6.0 3 units PHYSICS...

The answer is to learn the material and not get a C- and have to whine to the instructor Being above average is not enough for grad school. Stop bitching and whining and learn the material. Ultimately, grad schools want to take in the best students. So be that best student and stop blaming...

How about getting an A in the next quantum class down the list (even if it ends up being a grad course), instead of retaking this one? Although this would probably be too much work for something that's not even your main subject area... What kind of math are you thinking about?