IDontHaveAName
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Hello, all I'm a rising senior who's about to apply for grad school. However, this year has been a rough year for me as my overall grade has declined a bit, especially in that I did not do well in 3 core major courses: mechanics B and EM II I got a B and STAT MECH B+(sadly, I thought i deserved much better grades b/c I feel like i know more than my peers who got better grades). My QM, RELATIVITY, WAVE/OPTICS, and EM I(yes this is considered pretty advanced courses at my uni) have straight A's , so no A-. As of now, my GPA stands at a solid 3.7. In the coming fall I will be taking more advanced courses: QM II and atomic physics which I have a strong feeling that i can get A's on(since its back in person and QM is the only course I enjoyed over this year)
The issue with me is that prepandemic my grades looks solid, pretty much stem courses all A's , at worse, A-'s . BUt after pandemic, my motivaiton just went down a deep hill and so I did not put much effort. In fact, I decided to overload my classes(exceeds credit limit) myself at the worst time possible. Never mind my bad decision, I know I will have practically no chance for top-tier, so I'm trying to shoot for mid-tier. Perhaps top 20-40.
With regards to my research, I did got into SULI this summer which I will be performing some data anlaysis and I heard they are in the process of making a paper. But that's really about it, also performing data analysis is a bit underwhealming for me since I came from a strong programming BG. I do not have any other solid research other than doing some independent projects working with lasers. But I do have 2 solid recommendation letter ready , with one of them a leader in the fields of AMO physics that I'm applying to.
I would love to hear some honest feedback.
The issue with me is that prepandemic my grades looks solid, pretty much stem courses all A's , at worse, A-'s . BUt after pandemic, my motivaiton just went down a deep hill and so I did not put much effort. In fact, I decided to overload my classes(exceeds credit limit) myself at the worst time possible. Never mind my bad decision, I know I will have practically no chance for top-tier, so I'm trying to shoot for mid-tier. Perhaps top 20-40.
With regards to my research, I did got into SULI this summer which I will be performing some data anlaysis and I heard they are in the process of making a paper. But that's really about it, also performing data analysis is a bit underwhealming for me since I came from a strong programming BG. I do not have any other solid research other than doing some independent projects working with lasers. But I do have 2 solid recommendation letter ready , with one of them a leader in the fields of AMO physics that I'm applying to.
I would love to hear some honest feedback.