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I am a prospective grad student who has had the unbelievable fortune of receiving three fellowships: a government agency funded graduate research fellowship, a well-known award to get a master's by research in the U.K., and a named most-promising-incoming-PhD fellowship that covers the first...

Thank you. This feels like a bit of a minefield, but I'm sure it won't look that way once admissions season is done.

Thank you, good sir, for the advice. What might the euphemism stand for? The professor did specifically ask me to prepare one.

I have received an invitation to interview for a graduate program in the U.K. The email came from a professor who previously expressed interest in working with me and helped me write a fellowship application. Now, my question is: what makes a graduate interview in physics "informal"? Mind you...

Homework Statement I am identifying equations on the final exam equation sheet for my quantum II class. I've identified them all except this one, what I am guessing is a transition rate for some kind of emission or absorption of radiation case. Please help me identify the physical situation...

Homework Statement Calculate the geometric phase change when the infinite square well expands adiabatically from width w1 to w2.Homework Equations Geometric phase: \gamma_n(t) = i \int_{R_i}^{R_f} \Bigg< \psi_n \Bigg | \frac{\partial \psi_n}{\partial R} \Bigg > dR Infinite square well wave...

Thanks, Zz. I got this idea after the end of the semester - so no, I have not discussed the question with my advisor. If we rightfully set aside the question of my past and future GPA and aptitude, have you any input on the usefulness of the Astro and two math courses I listed above?

I am an undergraduate with 3 more semesters left and with the majority of my physics core complete, except for quantum theory. I'd like to give my best effort to entering a top graduate school, but I got B marks in E&M I and Classical Mechanics. This semester was a turnaround, with straight A's...

Thanks to this, I watched it in the theater on Friday. My tears are on you. It's hilarious!

It looks animated! Is it real?

I can relate to switching a lot between disciplines. I went through 5 "declared" majors, graduated with a bachelor's in 2 of them, and got a job in a capacity that combined my two majors. Then I moved to a more science-based role within the same company because I was clearly good at it. This...

Congrats! Did you email them?

Chicago emailed me their results on March 15. Not sure what the hold up is.

Summary of my results: MIT Haystack - acceptance (will attend) U Chicago - acceptance (had to decline :/) NASA Goddard - Solar Physics - informal acceptance (declined) AMNH - rejection Keck Northeastern Astronomical Consortium - rejection Boston University - Magnetic Fields in Space - no...

One thing that was good about gen ed requirements - I had to take a science class as part of my general ed in college. I was terrified of science, so I took anatomy at a community college. Which made me go, I can do science. I can like science. But the path from a single anatomy class to a...