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Cameron Roberts
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Hello everyone,
First post here, so let me introduce myself. My name is Cameron Roberts, as I believe will show next to my post. I currently study at the University of Alabama as a Physics major with a somewhat undecided minor. I intend to get my Ph.D and work on the Bose-Einstein Condensate.
On to my questions now: I was wondering what minor would be most beneficial for me, what I should be doing during my undergraduate years to prepare for graduate school, and what I should be expecting as far as graduate admissions. For the minor, I've told my advisor I want to minor in Computer Science. I love the field, thought about majoring in it, but like Physics much better, and so went with that. That's still capable of changing as far as I'm concerned. Having a working knowledge of algorithms and implementation, if not a full knowledge of coding, would be helpful to a Physicist, but I'm not certain it's the best. Does anyone have a better suggestion with a reason why? As to my undergraduate activities, I want to know what societies, clubs, internships and such I should be trying to do. I'd heard there was a test, whose score will help place me in a graduate program (or bar me therefrom) and was wondering what the scores I need would be, and the relative difficulty of the test. Finally, as to what to expect from graduate programs, I want to go directly to work on my Ph.D, but would like to hear about the Master's degree as well, and what to expect from both in forms of coursework, theses and such.
Any information at all is much appreciated. I can add more information about my current situation or goals if required.
Thank you all very much!
Cameron
First post here, so let me introduce myself. My name is Cameron Roberts, as I believe will show next to my post. I currently study at the University of Alabama as a Physics major with a somewhat undecided minor. I intend to get my Ph.D and work on the Bose-Einstein Condensate.
On to my questions now: I was wondering what minor would be most beneficial for me, what I should be doing during my undergraduate years to prepare for graduate school, and what I should be expecting as far as graduate admissions. For the minor, I've told my advisor I want to minor in Computer Science. I love the field, thought about majoring in it, but like Physics much better, and so went with that. That's still capable of changing as far as I'm concerned. Having a working knowledge of algorithms and implementation, if not a full knowledge of coding, would be helpful to a Physicist, but I'm not certain it's the best. Does anyone have a better suggestion with a reason why? As to my undergraduate activities, I want to know what societies, clubs, internships and such I should be trying to do. I'd heard there was a test, whose score will help place me in a graduate program (or bar me therefrom) and was wondering what the scores I need would be, and the relative difficulty of the test. Finally, as to what to expect from graduate programs, I want to go directly to work on my Ph.D, but would like to hear about the Master's degree as well, and what to expect from both in forms of coursework, theses and such.
Any information at all is much appreciated. I can add more information about my current situation or goals if required.
Thank you all very much!
Cameron