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Storm89
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Hello there,
I have been lurking for a few days, and finally decided to sign up, though it took me a while to find a username under 13 letters. Usually I'd go for my regular Caelumamittendum, which I use anywhere else, but alas that wasn't going to happen!
To cut things a bit short, I'm a 23 year old Dane, who's interest in physics, and more so astronomy and astrophysics, has only flourished in the past 2 years or so. In high school I was more into the language department of things, even though I always got my highest grades in math, physics and so on. I just never knew what I was supposed to use those classes for, so I never paid much interest.
I ended up going to university studying Linguistics, which is actually rather interesting, for a year. Then Danish for a year. And then went into some social/people orientated education. Half a year into that I realized I had no idea what I was doing, so I quit that and had a bit of a think.
In the end I cut it down to wanting something with astronomy. I just never took the right courses in high school, so I would need to take some extra classes now before I can begin studying physics at university. Those classes being what we refer to as Math B to A (It goes C, B, A), Physics C to B and A and Chemstry 0 to B. That may not have made much sense. But given my newfound interest in astronomy, I'm hoping I can find some motivation in that when getting back on the school bench.
I thought I would sign up here, even though I'm a noob in most aspects. I have had Math at B level, but that is some 6 years back, and I honestly don't remember much more than the very basics. So starting Math A 20th of August I thought I'd get my hands on my old math books, possibly an nSpire CAS CX (as that or TI89 are required. I know people are very fond of the 89, and so was I back in the day, but I think I'll go for the nSpire) and try and run through those in the next 2 months.
Without getting into too much detail, I guess I'd classify my interests as astronomy, astrophysics (though I'm often struggling to understand it at the moment) and...well, astrophilosophy. That's probably not a word, but pardon that.
That was hardly making a long story short.
Regards,
Ben
I have been lurking for a few days, and finally decided to sign up, though it took me a while to find a username under 13 letters. Usually I'd go for my regular Caelumamittendum, which I use anywhere else, but alas that wasn't going to happen!
To cut things a bit short, I'm a 23 year old Dane, who's interest in physics, and more so astronomy and astrophysics, has only flourished in the past 2 years or so. In high school I was more into the language department of things, even though I always got my highest grades in math, physics and so on. I just never knew what I was supposed to use those classes for, so I never paid much interest.
I ended up going to university studying Linguistics, which is actually rather interesting, for a year. Then Danish for a year. And then went into some social/people orientated education. Half a year into that I realized I had no idea what I was doing, so I quit that and had a bit of a think.
In the end I cut it down to wanting something with astronomy. I just never took the right courses in high school, so I would need to take some extra classes now before I can begin studying physics at university. Those classes being what we refer to as Math B to A (It goes C, B, A), Physics C to B and A and Chemstry 0 to B. That may not have made much sense. But given my newfound interest in astronomy, I'm hoping I can find some motivation in that when getting back on the school bench.
I thought I would sign up here, even though I'm a noob in most aspects. I have had Math at B level, but that is some 6 years back, and I honestly don't remember much more than the very basics. So starting Math A 20th of August I thought I'd get my hands on my old math books, possibly an nSpire CAS CX (as that or TI89 are required. I know people are very fond of the 89, and so was I back in the day, but I think I'll go for the nSpire) and try and run through those in the next 2 months.
Without getting into too much detail, I guess I'd classify my interests as astronomy, astrophysics (though I'm often struggling to understand it at the moment) and...well, astrophilosophy. That's probably not a word, but pardon that.
That was hardly making a long story short.
Regards,
Ben
