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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:25 pm
Can anyone tell me the basic qualifications for studying astrophysics?
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Here's an insider tip. When starting a thread, include something relevant to your question in the title. If you create 50 threads which all say "help!", we are likely to mistake multiple posts as the same thread. Plus, you look like an idiot and we'll be more inclined to fill your threads with lolcat pictures than be legitimately helpful.Monicka1991 wrote:Can anyone tell me the basic qualifications for studying astrophysics?
But Happy Quark, you are a bunny! A nice soft bunny.HappyQuark wrote:Here's an insider tip. When starting a thread, include something relevant to your question in the title. If you create 50 threads which all say "help!", we are likely to mistake multiple posts as the same thread. Plus, you look like an idiot and we'll be more inclined to fill your threads with lolcat pictures than be legitimately helpful.Monicka1991 wrote:Can anyone tell me the basic qualifications for studying astrophysics?
On an unrelated note,
Monicka1991 wrote:Can anyone tell me the basic qualifications for studying astrophysics?
In that casetady wrote:But Happy Quark, you are a bunny! A nice soft bunny.HappyQuark wrote:Here's an insider tip. When starting a thread, include something relevant to your question in the title. If you create 50 threads which all say "help!", we are likely to mistake multiple posts as the same thread. Plus, you look like an idiot and we'll be more inclined to fill your threads with lolcat pictures than be legitimately helpful.Monicka1991 wrote:Can anyone tell me the basic qualifications for studying astrophysics?
On an unrelated note,
I apologize, I should have been more helpful. This blog post describes what is expected out of astrophysics grad students at U Penn and comes directly from one of the professors on their admissions committees. I don't know too much about astrophysics but it seems like most of the recommendations can be generalized to other institutions.Monicka1991 wrote:Seriously!!Dont you have anything better to do?!!If u dont know ANYTHING...just leave
You are very polite.Monicka1991 wrote:Any good replies?!!otherthan jobless persons?!!
No seriously Dear monicka that's not at all Indianness. They all were right. If you stay for the next 2 and half year or so then I am damn sure 90% of your post will have a subject like $$......help......$$. I also guess you must be using subject like this in your emails. And let me tell you, in future you're going to mess up completely. Use relevant subject. That's all important for your personal and other use also.Monicka1991 wrote:Any good replies?!!otherthan jobless persons?!!
...alright.Monicka1991 wrote:I seeking help here alright?!!I need all the help i could get...not many people go for astrophysics here and i am not sure about the qualifications..alright?!so please..I need to be sure about everything..and there is no need to bring india in here..
They all are Ph.D. institutions. And all are very good.Monicka1991 wrote:well...Ms in india in not my choice but anyway thanks
OK Monicka, I'm going to help you out a little bit. Here's a hypothetical post to this forum:Monicka1991 wrote:Yes..I know that...but i want to be sure...thats why...some contact with someone who has studied astrophysics might be a big help..thats why..anyway thankyou..
Dial 911 for help (or whatever its equivalent is in India)!Monicka1991 wrote:I seeking help here alright?!!I need all the help i could get...not many people go for astrophysics here and i am not sure about the qualifications..alright?!so please..I need to be sure about everything..and there is no need to bring india in here..
Haa! Wish India had one!tady wrote:Dial 911 for help (or whatever its equivalent is in India)!Monicka1991 wrote:I seeking help here alright?!!I need all the help i could get...not many people go for astrophysics here and i am not sure about the qualifications..alright?!so please..I need to be sure about everything..and there is no need to bring india in here..
Welll Hii there.. Want to lay with me and look at the stars? You can use my telescope.Monicka1991 wrote:Observational astrophysics
WhoaNonstop wrote:Welll Hii there.. Want to lay with me and look at the stars? You can use my telescope.Monicka1991 wrote:Observational astrophysics
-Riley
tady wrote:Dial 911 for help (or whatever its equivalent is in India)!Monicka1991 wrote:I seeking help here alright?!!I need all the help i could get...not many people go for astrophysics here and i am not sure about the qualifications..alright?!so please..I need to be sure about everything..and there is no need to bring india in here..
Obviously you use a telescope to look at stars dude.tady wrote:WOW. Did you really just say telescope (not microscope)?
You're the 911 operator?sphy wrote:Q. Who helped monicka to get this side?
A. 911
@Riley: Monicka just rang me and told me he is boy and interested in you.
Yes...I am.WhoaNonstop wrote:You're the 911 operator?sphy wrote:Q. Who helped monicka to get this site?
A. 911
@Riley: Monicka just rang me and told me he is a boy and interested in you.
-Riley
Upon rereading my post I wanted to make it clear that I was not implying that Monicka was involved in the pornography industry. Thank you.grae313 wrote:"Hello, I am currently an undergrad student in XXX in India..."
Hahaha.grae313 wrote:Upon rereading my post I wanted to make it clear that I was not implying that Monicka was involved in the pornography industry. Thank you.grae313 wrote:"Hello, I am currently an undergrad student in XXX in India..."
Why?rahuldatta wrote:hello everybody!!!
you shud encourage engineers to get into physics
Because physics is cooler than engineering?HappyQuark wrote:Why?rahuldatta wrote:hello everybody!!!
you shud encourage engineers to get into physics
But physics is competitive enough without switching all of the engineers over to the dark side.Dorian_Mode wrote:Because physics is cooler than engineering?HappyQuark wrote:Why?rahuldatta wrote:hello everybody!!!
you shud encourage engineers to get into physics
Eh, I've taught "Engineers" this past year. They can barely do physics, let alone engineering. I was told the Introductory Physics course for them was the hardest part of their whole curriculum. And to think, I'm going to cross bridges someday designed by my students. =Xrahuldatta wrote:hello everybody!!!
you shud encourage engineers to get into physics
Good point. I don't need more people applying for NSF in the fall.HappyQuark wrote: But physics is competitive enough without switching all of the engineers over to the dark side.
Actually, it's good if they apply for Physics instead of ECE. The way NSF splits the total number of awards in each discipline is dependent on the number of applicants in each discipline. Assuming your application is stronger than the average ECE cross-over, you should encourage it.Dorian_Mode wrote:Good point. I don't need more people applying for NSF in the fall.HappyQuark wrote: But physics is competitive enough without switching all of the engineers over to the dark side.
How could someone possibly say we discouraged engineers to get in to physics.rahuldatta wrote:hello everybody!!!
you shud encourage engineers to get into physics.
The situation is quite different in many other countries, and somewhat different in top engineering schools. In other countries engineering has the highest intellectual prestige, is much more competitive and selective, and attracts the brightest students. At top engineering schools I've gathered from experience and hearing people talk about it that there are still plenty of dumb ones, but the smart ones are absolutely top notch.WhoaNonstop wrote:Eh, I've taught "Engineers" this past year. They can barely do physics, let alone engineering. I was told the Introductory Physics course for them was the hardest part of their whole curriculum. And to think, I'm going to cross bridges someday designed by my students. =Xrahuldatta wrote:hello everybody!!!
you shud encourage engineers to get into physics
-Riley
I did my undergrad in engineering (Engineering Science Physics, but still engineering) but my grad work is in physics. I have this discussion all of the time with my peers and I get teased a lot due to my background. Like grae has mentioned, at the top engineering programs, the smart students are incredibly bright. I would even venture that at the top programs, the average engineering student is still a top notch academic performer. While there are some incredibly brilliant physics Master's and PhD students at my current institution, there isn't the same concentration of incredibly-bright-and-extremely-motivated-workaholics as there was during my undergrad. I was an average performer in my undergrad and I've met profs and students at my current institution that don't believe when I tell them I have a bachelor's in engineering.grae313 wrote:The situation is quite different in many other countries, and somewhat different in top engineering schools. In other countries engineering has the highest intellectual prestige, is much more competitive and selective, and attracts the brightest students. At top engineering schools I've gathered from experience and hearing people talk about it that there are still plenty of dumb ones, but the smart ones are absolutely top notch.WhoaNonstop wrote: Eh, I've taught "Engineers" this past year. They can barely do physics, let alone engineering. I was told the Introductory Physics course for them was the hardest part of their whole curriculum. And to think, I'm going to cross bridges someday designed by my students. =X
-Riley
So now we just have to hope that the industry has measures in place to keep the dumb ones from building bridges.
Chemists, on the other hand, are daft all day, every day, 365 days of the year.....366 on leap years.grae313 wrote:The situation is quite different in many other countries, and somewhat different in top engineering schools. In other countries engineering has the highest intellectual prestige, is much more competitive and selective, and attracts the brightest students. At top engineering schools I've gathered from experience and hearing people talk about it that there are still plenty of dumb ones, but the smart ones are absolutely top notch.WhoaNonstop wrote:Eh, I've taught "Engineers" this past year. They can barely do physics, let alone engineering. I was told the Introductory Physics course for them was the hardest part of their whole curriculum. And to think, I'm going to cross bridges someday designed by my students. =Xrahuldatta wrote:hello everybody!!!
you shud encourage engineers to get into physics
-Riley
So now we just have to hope that the industry has measures in place to keep the dumb ones from building bridges.