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So I’m a junior at FSU and I have to apply to grad schools next year. I’ve done EPR condensed matter research with Steven hill at MagLab during my sophomore year. I am currently doing experimental nuclear research with Ingo Weidenhover, and my bachelors thesis will be on measuring J values for excited states of 29Si around the alpha threshold.
However I’ve found out recently about biophysics (I don’t think it gets enough representation in physics outreach). Now knowing about the field, I really want to study molecular biophysics and protein folding. I hope I can help with cancer research even if it’s just a small amount. I know I would have a lot to catch up on with the biology itself, but I’m willing to do that.
I went to ask my Mathematical Methods 1/2 professor about advice applying for schools, as she was a biophysicist.
She said since I plan to have a bachelors thesis in nuclear, that I can only apply to nuclear related schools, or at least those are the schools that I have a chance to get into. She said I need to change my thesis topic now if I really want to do biophysics.
My issue is that I just started with the nuclear experiment about 3 months ago, and I’m a decent amount of work into the project.
Do you guys think my MathMethods teacher is right? I’ll drop my nuclear research tomorrow if she’s really onto something. I’m just embarrassed to back out of the nuclear research, especially because before really learning of biophysics, I told Dr Weidenhover I was all in for nuclear physics (I originally thought I would spin my nuclear experience to work in a hospital and help oncology departments with chemo, having done a medical physics PhD. But I hate chemo and hated seeing my aunt have to go through it and I think it would be much better to find a cure that’s more humane, maybe by understanding the biophysics better).
Ugh:(
However I’ve found out recently about biophysics (I don’t think it gets enough representation in physics outreach). Now knowing about the field, I really want to study molecular biophysics and protein folding. I hope I can help with cancer research even if it’s just a small amount. I know I would have a lot to catch up on with the biology itself, but I’m willing to do that.
I went to ask my Mathematical Methods 1/2 professor about advice applying for schools, as she was a biophysicist.
She said since I plan to have a bachelors thesis in nuclear, that I can only apply to nuclear related schools, or at least those are the schools that I have a chance to get into. She said I need to change my thesis topic now if I really want to do biophysics.
My issue is that I just started with the nuclear experiment about 3 months ago, and I’m a decent amount of work into the project.
Do you guys think my MathMethods teacher is right? I’ll drop my nuclear research tomorrow if she’s really onto something. I’m just embarrassed to back out of the nuclear research, especially because before really learning of biophysics, I told Dr Weidenhover I was all in for nuclear physics (I originally thought I would spin my nuclear experience to work in a hospital and help oncology departments with chemo, having done a medical physics PhD. But I hate chemo and hated seeing my aunt have to go through it and I think it would be much better to find a cure that’s more humane, maybe by understanding the biophysics better).
Ugh:(