About one year ago, I was on my knees asking for advice on how to recover from an almost irrecoverable error in my academic career. Several things have changed, and I wanted to see if it is finally safe to stand up, and if a recovery is even possible considering this...
This looks like a "you got what you deserved"-type reply with little advice: about 95% of the responses were very helpful and provided some direction on what career plan to take. Yes--I made a major error in the beginning and am now being given a second chance at the cost of spending 4 + 4 + 4...
Thanks for all the advice, and sorry for resurrecting such an ancient thread. I've decided to return to school after working as an office manager and hating every nanosecond of it. The school is going to put me on three months probation and let me work in a research lab outside of the physics...
You have 1^\infty. The idea is to get to 0/0 or \frac{\infty}{\infty}. In your case, try to message your expression so that you're doing this:
1^\infty \rightarrow 0 \cdot \infty \rightarrow \frac{0}{0}.
You'll need to take the logarithm of both sides before you start. Once you get to...
Are you talking about the US? Last time I checked (cf. the period Bush has been in office), we were playing second fiddle to the UK in science, mostly because of poor funding for the major agencies: NIH, DOE, NASA, etc. It's not that we are overmanned in science and engineering--we are in fact...
As a matter of fact, this is what I'm doing now to subsist. The job is 12 x 5 + 10 x 2 hours per week, and it involves shuttling small packages around the area. It's a real dive, but it pays the bills.
Also, what you say in your last sentence is precisely what got me to work up the courage...
It was mostly a matter of having good teachers. I demonstrated interest in math very early (two-base multiplication at four), and kept the interest up through high school. My ninth-grade science teacher noticed I was doing well in his course, and he loaned me a quantum mechanics text (Goswami)...
The 100 dollars and burger store came at the end. Also, I did reasonably well as an undergraduate...the first derivative became negative when I got to graduate school.
Try evaluating <O> in a basis where O is diagonal. This is perfectly okay since <O> is independent of representation. Here's a hint: In the (-1, 1, 2)-basis, O will look like this
\left(
\begin{array}{c c c}
-1
& &\\
& 1 &\\
& & 2\\
\end{array}
\right)
Just write psi as a...
That's a pretty disingenuous assertion. How can you be so sure? I suffered a perturbation, and am trying to recover from it. The others offered suggestions pointing to problems that should have been in plain view: a (glaring) lack of discipline, questionable work ethic, and considerable...
Can anyone here would be able to extract some hope from the following scenario?
I began my undergraduate coursework in physics in 2000 at a top-20 school at the age of sixteen, and did quite well--earning four fellowships, TAing an upper-division particle physics lab course before reaching...