Exploring New Frontiers in Physics: A Teacher's Journey Back to Graduate School

[mrdenagy]

Hello all!

I am a graduate of Florida State University where I majored in Physics & Astrophysics. This was essentially a complete undergraduate physics degree (120 credits) with additional coursework in Astrophysics (12 credits). After graduating I attended graduate school at FSU and managed to complete half of my master's degree while participating in Astronomy research (which I loved). After a while, life got in the way, and I had to abandon my pursuit of a PhD for personal reasons.

Seven years later and I am now a high school physics teacher who longs to return to the time when I was doing more advanced physics on a daily basis. Don't misunderstand, I absolutely love teaching physics at the high school level, and being a teacher has forever changed my life in many positive ways. However, while my goals in life have shifted over the years, I have always held onto the idea of returning to graduate school and completing my masters degree. Perhaps even a PhD.

To that end, I have begun the process of investigating different areas of physics that I wouldn't have at one time, while saving money and doing my research on the graduate programs that are close to me. Thus, I have arrived at the Physics Forums in the hopes of expanding my knowledge and gaining better insight into the areas I had before ignored. As of now, I seek the wisdom from those in the medical physics field. I am also interested in the areas of quantum computing and materials science.

Cheers,

 

[PeroK]

 

[mrdenagy]

Thank you! I was trying to send a message to ask a question and it's telling me my message is spam. Any idea what that's about?

 

[PeroK]

Thank you! I was trying to send a message to ask a question and it's telling me my message is spam. Any idea what that's about?

What do you mean by send a message?

 

[mrdenagy]

I guess it's called a conversation. I had read an article by Choppy and I was wanting to ask them a question about medical physics.

 

[PeroK]

I guess it's called a conversation. I had read an article by Choppy and I was wanting to ask them a question about medical physics.

What happens if you start a conversation with me?

 

[mrdenagy]

I was able to start a conversation with you. Apparently I just had to shorten the message I was trying to send to Choppy and it let me. Thanks!

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to the PF, @mrdenagy -- it is usually discouraged to send unsolicited PMs to other members. It's best to post questions in the open forums. Sometimes other members are fine with the PMs (and the Mentors are usually fine with being contacted directly with forum questions), but sometimes users can be put off by direct contact. @Choppy may be fine with it, hopefully. Certainly your background looks very good.

Enjoy the PF!

 

[gleem]

I may also be able to provide information on medical physics especially in a clinical setting.

 

[Choppy]

For the record I'm fine with people sending PMs if they're interested in talking or asking about medical physics.

 

[mrdenagy]

Welcome to the PF, @mrdenagy -- it is usually discouraged to send unsolicited PMs to other members. It's best to post questions in the open forums. Sometimes other members are fine with the PMs (and the Mentors are usually fine with being contacted directly with forum questions), but sometimes users can be put off by direct contact. @Choppy may be fine with it, hopefully. Certainly your background looks very good.

Enjoy the PF!

Duly noted good sir! My apologies, I will avoid doing so again in the future.

I may also be able to provide information on medical physics especially in a clinical setting.

Thank you gleem, I will keep that in mind as I continue to sift through information and questions arise.