Student Definition and 1000 Threads

At an Ivy League Engineering school

so is a tablet pc any usefull in this career or I am better of getting a regular laptop?

Hi everyone, I was just wondering what were the mistakes you made along your career path in any of the sciences, and what would you recommend any young person doing to avoid these mistakes...

Hello! I am new here, this is basically my first post. I am an 18 year old from India, just finished high school. It is my wish to pursue a career in physics, going into research and/or academics. However I am somewhat apprehensive about the level of science education one gets in Indian...

I had an interesting conversation today with one of the senior professors in my department. It was in the context of students who have some difficulty in defining a project. What came into question was the level of independence of Ph.D. students should display with respect to their research...

I was reading Zapper Z's "So you want to be a physicist" article. I'd like to ask how much does a Ph.D Student earn on average if they are a research assistant? Thanks!

It's time to register for classes again and I'm afraid I have a slight dilemma. My major, currently, is Physics. I enjoy Physics and I have no wish to transfer out of it, but I have no interest whatsoever in doing pure physics as a career (research and teaching aren't my style, neither are the...

Being a grad student during the summer... Just curious as to what most of you non-RA grad students do during the summer semesters? I would like to take some classes this summer I'm but having a hard timing figuring out how to pay for them. There are usually TA positions open during the summer...

I am not sure if this is the correct place to post so feel free to correct me if I am wrong. I would like to ask if anybody here would be willing to tutor me online basically like a teacher/student situation and work through maths. I am achieving high in maths at school but want to advance...

Right now I'm a freshman physics student, interested in eventually going to grad school for theoretical physics. I may transfer and go for a mathematical physics degree at another schppl, but I can't help but wonder how much math is acutally needed past partial differential equations. Will...

I'm interested to hear from Grad Students at these schools about anything they wish they had known when they were applying. How competitive/compassionate are the students? How is the weather? Are people happy? Is the town in complete economic distress? Do you like the whole department, or...

Hi All, I am a BSc Physics Honours student at the University of Delhi in India. I am interested in pursuing an MSc in Physics from a good university in the U.K. I am looking for information regarding the univs offering MSc in Physics, TA's/RA's /funding for foreign students, information on...

Hey all, I'm in the process of pushing for a good graduate student lounge (in a physics department) at my university. I'm curious, what is your graduate student lounge like? Does one exist? Is it awful, mediocre, or pretty cool? What's in it? If you wouldn't mind including what...

Paid off my student loans! Not 100% accurate, but I did file for a final payment submission for next week and my paycheck clears this weekend. I'm too excited to wait until then. FREEDOM! :cool: :eek: :!) All in all it was a little over $25,000 since I started paying in Feb. 2007. My goal...

I'm a first year engineering student in a Finnish University. I'm majoring in electronics, more specifically microchip and microprocessor design, and was thinkin to take my minor from something completely different area like economics. Currently I'm only aiming for masters degree. I know this...

I'm currently an undergraduate student in the UK, and would like to go to grad school in America. I've seen a lot of people say that doing REUs is important to get into a good grad school, but undergraduate research is not very common in the UK, other than a project in the final year which...

OK so I've been reading a lot about gates and Boolean logic lately and I understand how they function but if somebody were to open up the casing of an electrical component and they asked me to point to an 'and' or an 'or' gate what would I point to? Pictures would be very helpful thanks.

Fruit Polishing Machine. Help for a student! Hey guys. I’m a student from Politecnico di Milano, where I’m doing a graduate diploma in Design & Engineering. I have a problem related with the mechanic of my project: I am designing a machine to polish fruit in home environment (the machine...

Seventh- and eighth-grade students participated in a tournament. Each contestant played each other contestant once. There were ten times as many eighth-grade students, but they were able to win only four-and-a-half times as many points as seventh graders. How many seventh-grade students...

I'm currently in college studying mechE and physics and currently making plans for summer. I can't take classes and I already do have a job but I am looking for something perhaps engineering-related? My dream would be to take an internship but I'm only going to be a sophomore and have little...

Hi. I have a question to ask the countless physics students on this forum. I just completed my gr 12 physics course (SPH 4U) and I absolutely loved it! The teacher was awesome, he had so much passion for the subject and he would go out of his way to tell us about how he majored in physics...

Well i have one semester of college under my belt and overall i was pretty relaxed throughout the first half of the year. This semester my course load is 100x harder which is what i expected because i signed up for it! lol My schedule is as follows: Organic Chem Genetics Microbiology Physics...

I'm a 32 years old teacher in mathematics and physics in a high school, and I obtained a first class BSc (Hon) in physics a couple of years ago, which was emphazided on theoretical physics in terms of option courses. However, I have always wanted to gain an MSc and, if possible, a Phd in...

Do you think there is a relation between superb eating habits and academic success? Try to share your magic "super-brain" food, whether it's scientifically proven or your superstition/placebo.

Homework Statement A school contains students in grades 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. Grades 2,3,4,5 and 6 all contain the same number of students, but there are twice this number in grade 1. a)If a student is selected at random from a list of all the students in the school, what is the probability...

Hi all.. I am now a first-year graduate student in engineering. I have been working on a research problem for 3 months. I thought that I have solved the problem recently and wrote up a manuscript and was ready to submit that. However, suddenly, I found an error with my work and it cannot be...

Hi there, I live in England but want to go to uni in the US, preferably Harvard. I am predicted all A*s in my GCSEs which I'll take in the summer and would hope to get all A's in my AS and A levels. However, I have no idea how the UK examination results would translate into the US. As in, how...

Hey, I'm from Poland currently doing undergraduate studying. Now I have a few questions regarding studying in USA. In my country undergraduate course is only 3.5 year and then we have 1.5 year of graduate program. When should I apply to graduate program in the USA? I mean after 3.5 year I...

Hello, everyone: I have a bit of a strange question, but I am a writer and I'm writing a story about a college math student. What I'm in need of is an example of a question in Differential Geometry involving a "Submersion" (preferably a word problem), the process, and the solution. The...

So I'll be attending the university of Pittsburgh or Penn State this fall, and I plan on going to medical school after college. I also can't decide on a major. Mostly because of the chance that if I don't get into medical school, I don't want to have a degree that won't provide many job...

Help me, I'm really confused coz the school system in the US is completely different from the one here in the UK.. watch this vid to explain what I'm saying...http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=usq7h3n8GUw See, in the US, Students go to Universities in the age of 16...but here in the UK, when...

Be Careful Student Teachers! Rather outlandish court decision... http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/12/court_rules_against_teacher_in.html?nav=rss_blog

Can somebody give me an idea what you get upto on a day to day basis? I know roughly what you work towards in a PhD, obviously it depends on your topic, but I have no idea what it consists of day in and day out. For example, what maths do you do daily? What theory do you do daily? How much...

Homework Statement A class contains 30 students. What is th eprobability that there are six months each containing the birthdays of two students, and six months each containing the birthdays of three students. Assume that all months have the same probability of including the birthday of a...

sir, i am a 2nd year mechanical engginering student. i want to start a project so i want some innovative ideas .please suggest some projects.

hi every1 o:) i'm an 11th grader (specialized in Science :cool: ) and have started school about 5 weeks ago. i love being a Science student :!) , I've always loved Science including Mathematics. Physics used 2 b my favorite subject but lately it became not :cry: cuz my Physics teacher makes...

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Hey everyone, I have a few questions for any engineers: Do any of you ever get overwhelmed by all the information and tech. that is out there. It just seems like engineering is a field where it is impossible to know everything. Sometimes I think about what it's going to be like when I'm given...

Will it be of any use to me if I just want to be a software engineer (which typical just consist of me coding things?)

Hello, I'm really interested in understanding Einstein's theory of relativity but I'm still a newbie, so I need to study the nonuclidean geometry, I tried to read "Euclidean and Non Euclidean Geometries" by Greenberg but since it was for the pure mathematics students and it was full of the...

So after some corrections, this is her abstract. Can anyone suggest any further corrections? Thanks! (btw she went to a high school research program) I'm thinking of changing from "is created from" to something else, like "comes from". I'm also thinking of adding some conclusive statement at...

I'm a senior in high school and I'm currently doing some research on colleges. I want to major in prepharmacy, but I have a fear that I might change it into engineering or art sometime later. I was thinking about applying to Rochester Institute of Technology but since I live in CA. I never been...

Homework Statement A clean surface of potassium in a vacuum is irradiated with light of wavelength 5.5 x10 -7 m and electrons are found just to emerge, but when light of wavelength 5.0 x 10 -7 m is incident, electrons emerge with energy 3.62 x 10-20 J. Estimate a value for Planck's constant...

Cans omeone please list out the reasearch oppurtunities/Internship oppurtunities ofr an Engineering Physics student during the summer.. I am interested in theoritical physics...as such where all can i apply for summer research...?

My bio teacher is basically a dumbass. He doesn't teach us anything (literally) and gives us a test. Just yesterday we had to do a lab for him and we had no outline, (just said look at your handout, and I see that I have 20, with a rat on it and showing me how to make a graph on excel, real...

I'm having to decide which degree to take now and can't really make my mind up between straight Physics or Theoretical. I will be applying to Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, Imperial and Nottingham if anyone cares. Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on the 'Physics with Theoretical...

Homework Statement A student standing on the ground throws a ball straight up. The ball leaves the student's hand with a speed of 15 m/s when the hand is 2.0 m above the ground. How long is the ball in the air before it hits the ground? (The student moves her hand out of the way.)...

I'm currently a senior in high school and am planning on going to RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) granted that I do not get accepted to MIT. At the moment, I plan to major in physics and probably minor in mathematics. Basically, I'm just curious if there is anyone here that is or has...

Hello ya'll, new to these forums but I've been reading around and enjoyed what I've read. Wanted to get some feedback about some classes coming up this semester. I'm a Sr. high school student, and will taking one class at the HS (AP Bio), and 4 at a college nearby. I took AP Calc BC and...

When books say things like, this book intended for the strong student, or for a sharp class, who exactly are they addressing? Are they addressing naturally gifted students who presumably can handle difficult material? Or are they appealing to students who are mature and take their subjects...