Recent content by Wisey

Your experience does sound like good incentive for sleeping for that long, sadly the maximum I can get is around 7 hours, since I have to waste around three and half hours of my day in traveling to college and back. I guess I can always doze off during my holidays though. How so? Doesn't your...

You might want to send me a PM? :biggrin: I am really curious now. The latter part was good for some motivation though. Thank you for the replies. I really don't want to use drugs, I can't even deal with coffee properly. I guess developing discipline in my everyday life is a good way to...

I have been having this problem for many years now, but it is really starting to bother me of late, as I don't think I can get away with it in college like I did in school. I don't have any problems concentrating on my studies when my exams are nearby. With very limited time in my hands, I...

Thank you for the replies. I guess I shouldn't be too worried till I reach the second year and see what it is like. I just fear of falling behind students from other universities over a period of 4 years.

Hello, right now I am in my first semester of electrical engineering, and am having a few doubts about my course. Whatever I have learned in my first semester seems kind of basic. I mean, they are not school level topics, for example in mathematics I have stuff like calculus of several...

I live in Chennai, India, and I can safely state that the caste system is still well and alive in the present day. I myself am supposed to belong to a family of a higher caste, and I have seen my own family members talk about inter-caste marriages as if it were a crime. Even inter-caste...

Thank you for the replies. I am more of a self study person, that is why I posed the question, although I don't think I can continue that in college.

I am going to be joining an Electrical Engineering course this month. I just checked out the syllabus and all the courses had some recommended textbooks along with some reference books. Now this got me wondering. I had some bad experiences with textbooks in high school, the textbooks in my...

Thank you for the replies! Well I think I will find enough time to study math, right now I have 2 months of free time, and I will have sporadic periods of such joblessness anyway, so that won't be much of a problem. Even if I have to go slow, I would prefer it, I like to think upon things...

Is it possible for me to learn mathematics on my own as a hobby? I wasn't really into it in high school, mainly because from middle school I was shoved with a bunch of formulae and asked to solve a horde of similar looking problems that did nothing to help me think in different directions, or...

Well I don't think I am much of an authority on this, but to say there is nothing innate doesn't seem rational. Sylvia Nasar tells me John von Neumann could multiply 8 digit numbers in his head at the age of 6. I doubt most adults can do that after years and years of practise. As such...

Thank you for the reply, that was helpful. I will probably do a BE in Electrical and Electronics, will see into the distance learning B.Sc as well, that avenue of education never occurred to me.

Well those courses would be valid options, but I have to do my Bachelor degree in India, and I can't find such courses in the colleges over here. Courses here aren't flexible at all, and you only have several fixed courses that you can study, like Electrical and Electronics engineering, or...

Right now, I kind of only have the option of doing engineering for my bachelor degree, but am more interested in physics. Is it possible for me to do my engineering course, and study a full fledged physics course on my own at the same time? Or even before that, is it possible for me to...

Oh well, I really can't find any college or university of note outside of the major universities that give a physics degree. Anyway, what is the level of physics taught in computer and electrical engineering? Is everything taught in a B.Sc course also covered in these two courses? If they...