Recent content by Wave Rider

Well, it's sort of old, but I'm still working on this problem. I need to find a research group go join, and fairly quickly. I did post a question about it on this thread, but either no one saw it or no one had anything to say about it, so I'll post it as a new thread.

Thanks all, these are great responses. It's a hard thing for me to give up some of these romanticized notions of what it means to be a scientist or engineer. Some of you have mentioned opportunities to work with holistic creation/hands-on processes, but it sounds like those are less common...

Perhaps I developed romanticized views of science and engineering by watching my favorite childhood shows of 3-2-1 Contact and Square One, where kids took home-built accelerometers on roller coasters and where clever detectives used mathematics to solve crimes. I learned from these shows (and...

I'm starting my second year as a graduate student in physics at the University of California, Irvine. It's been sort of a long journey getting here, and along the way I've made several academic/career decisions about what I wanted to do, only to find out that the day-to-day work of that job was...

Hi everyone. I'm a grad student in physics at the University of California Irvine, and I'm starting my second year of a PhD program. And I like to surf, which is why I chose my user name. Right now I have some career questions, so I'll be posting in the career guidance forum.