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 Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:49 pm
Just found this. Its nice to read up on everyones history in Physics and Math. I seem to have suffered much the same fate as Layra when it comes to High School.
Since I am new I figured this would be a good way to get to know me... kinda.
So here's my life story.
Bulgarian born. I spent good half of my life there... or something like that. I came to America when my mother divorced and moved, I was in her custody so off I went. Took three classes of English in one year... that sure was fun sweatdrop . By around 13 I started on Feynman's lectures on physics and progressed from their into what is my addiction to physics. Due to the amount of information crammed into my head in Bulgaria I skipped two grades in elementary school. Then high school came where I ended the last two years with no classes left to take but AP Government and some bullshit classes. Used this time to catch up on sleeping in class and look into Molecular Biology... which I found horribly boring. Took a few classes in Stanford on physics.
So... lets see 16 going on 17 I entered college, Physics major and Jap, math, and Comp Sci minors, that was a year ago. Now I am in my second year... and am incredibly bored at this time.
That is my short history.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:38 pm
Tiranin Just found this. Its nice to read up on everyones history in Physics and Math. I seem to have suffered much the same fate as Layra when it comes to High School. Since I am new I figured this would be a good way to get to know me... kinda. So here's my life story. Bulgarian born. I spent good half of my life there... or something like that. I came to America when my mother divorced and moved, I was in her custody so off I went. Took three classes of English in one year... that sure was fun sweatdrop . By around 13 I started on Feynman's lectures on physics and progressed from their into what is my addiction to physics. Due to the amount of information crammed into my head in Bulgaria I skipped two grades in elementary school. Then high school came where I ended the last two years with no classes left to take but AP Government and some bullshit classes. Used this time to catch up on sleeping in class and look into Molecular Biology... which I found horribly boring. Took a few classes in Stanford on physics. So... lets see 16 going on 17 I entered college, Physics major and Jap, math, and Comp Sci minors, that was a year ago. Now I am in my second year... and am incredibly bored at this time. That is my short history. What are you taking now?
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:44 pm
Linear Algebra, Thermal Physics, 21st Century Physics and Theory, Japanese Level 2, Macroeconomics.
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:06 am
Tiranin 21st Century Physics and Theory I'm going to have to ask WTF? We've been in the 21st century all of 7 years, and from what I've heard, theoretical physics has not gotten anywhere terribly significant yet. We've found some new particles, and changed a few error margins here and there, but enough to make a class about? Unless they're just talking about the wild TOE speculations, none of which have really panned out yet.
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:37 am
Layra-chan Tiranin 21st Century Physics and Theory I'm going to have to ask WTF? We've been in the 21st century all of 7 years, and from what I've heard, theoretical physics has not gotten anywhere terribly significant yet. We've found some new particles, and changed a few error margins here and there, but enough to make a class about? Unless they're just talking about the wild TOE speculations, none of which have really panned out yet. Its basically an applications course for: Classical, Relativistic, and Quantum Physics. I do not know why they gave it that name. There is discussion of Relativistic and Quantum Theory but it is not horribly in depth as this class tends to have left-overs from other majors. We also have to present 21st century applications for a field of our choice (nanoscience is my choice for instance), and do in depth research to present to the Physics body at the end of the Semester. Its an odd class. So I just tacked it on with Thermal... where I get to build a refrigeration unit blaugh .
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:19 am
Completely off topic, but is it bad that when I see the title of this thread, all I can think about are those old Frosted Flakes commercials? 'Cause you know, I'm more than good.
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:53 pm
Layra-chan Completely off topic, but is it bad that when I see the title of this thread, all I can think about are those old Frosted Flakes commercials? 'Cause you know, I'm more than good. I have no idea what you are on about. That's some American commercial from ages past, no? [Then again, I don't even have a TV in my apartment here yet.] Tiranin, "21st Century Physics and Theory" is a sexy name for a "sexy course". My friends in astrophysics would always complain that the sexier sounding a course sounded, the more dour thermodynamics it contained. I would always b***h about having to take thermo — I hate it with a passion, by the way — but they would say after taking the course that it was just thermodynamics with an astrophysical bent, and not at all as sexy as it sounded.
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:25 pm
A Lost Iguana Layra-chan Completely off topic, but is it bad that when I see the title of this thread, all I can think about are those old Frosted Flakes commercials? 'Cause you know, I'm more than good. I have no idea what you are on about. That's some American commercial from ages past, no? [Then again, I don't even have a TV in my apartment here yet.] She's more than good, she's greeeaaat! I think that's what she's referring to. sweatdrop Quote: Tiranin, "21st Century Physics and Theory" is a sexy name for a "sexy course". My friends in astrophysics would always complain that the sexier sounding a course sounded, the more dour thermodynamics it contained. I would always b***h about having to take thermo — I hate it with a passion, by the way — but they would say after taking the course that it was just thermodynamics with an astrophysical bent, and not at all as sexy as it sounded. No thermo in this class, I get enough of that in regular thermo. Its a pretty sexy course since it is very free with no real schedule beyond: "In this class we will start here *points at relativistic mechanics* and end over here *points at QM* with around twenty or so modern theories and physics applications somewhere in between." It is an odd course. Or maybe... I missed something in your post sweatdrop .
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:43 am
Ah, I was just remembering how my old astrophysics department would give the dullest classes the sexiest-sounding names.
Sate my curiosity: what do you do of RQM?
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:26 am
A Lost Iguana Ah, I was just remembering how my old astrophysics department would give the dullest classes the sexiest-sounding names. Sate my curiosity: what do you do of RQM? My school gives confusing names to a lot of its classes. Or the professors just like to not do what the course is supposed to be. From what I can tell from the course outline, we will either barely glance over it at some point or we will not talk much about it at all. Sadly, this is probably due to the fact that the class is not only Physics majors. It is the last class that non-physics people have to take, not that I know why. So our professor will go slow... especially this semester. He was a tad upset by the small amount of people that understood Relativity and Optics. crying
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:57 pm
Tiranin A Lost Iguana Ah, I was just remembering how my old astrophysics department would give the dullest classes the sexiest-sounding names. Sate my curiosity: what do you do of RQM? My school gives confusing names to a lot of its classes. Or the professors just like to not do what the course is supposed to be. From what I can tell from the course outline, we will either barely glance over it at some point or we will not talk much about it at all. Sadly, this is probably due to the fact that the class is not only Physics majors. It is the last class that non-physics people have to take, not that I know why. So our professor will go slow... especially this semester. He was a tad upset by the small amount of people that understood Relativity and Optics. crying This leads to the question of why are you taking this course, rather than a more formal physics course? It sounds like a fluff course, at least if you're actually interested in physics. An actual course in relativistic mechanics or quantum mechanics would be a lot more interesting for you. And spot on with the reference. I just can't get the "Hey Tony!" out of my head.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:52 am
Layra-chan Tiranin A Lost Iguana Ah, I was just remembering how my old astrophysics department would give the dullest classes the sexiest-sounding names. Sate my curiosity: what do you do of RQM? My school gives confusing names to a lot of its classes. Or the professors just like to not do what the course is supposed to be. From what I can tell from the course outline, we will either barely glance over it at some point or we will not talk much about it at all. Sadly, this is probably due to the fact that the class is not only Physics majors. It is the last class that non-physics people have to take, not that I know why. So our professor will go slow... especially this semester. He was a tad upset by the small amount of people that understood Relativity and Optics. crying This leads to the question of why are you taking this course, rather than a more formal physics course? It sounds like a fluff course, at least if you're actually interested in physics. An actual course in relativistic mechanics or quantum mechanics would be a lot more interesting for you. And spot on with the reference. I just can't get the "Hey Tony!" out of my head. I already took some of the higher level courses, I need to take this as a requirement unfortunately.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:07 pm
Layra-chan Dewdew Everyone I meet seems to be amazed that as a white female i am studying maths. It seems like you have to be male or asian (preferable both) for people to understand your decision of studying maths. Yeah, there are disappointingly few girls in the math department here, although amongst the professorship all of the females are Caucasian of some variant. Actually, there seem to be more Jewish males than anything else. I guess it's different at every school. For me, it's Professors: Almost completely male, mostly either Jewish or Russian Grad students: Very few white, almost completely male, mostly Indian and Russian Undergrads: 3/50 female, almost completely Romanian Tiranin, that is an odd thing to have as a requirement...
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:21 pm
Swordmaster Dragon Quote: Yeah, there are disappointingly few girls in the math department here, although amongst the professorship all of the females are Caucasian of some variant. Actually, there seem to be more Jewish males than anything else. I guess it's different at every school. For me, it's Professors: Almost completely male, mostly either Jewish or Russian Grad students: Very few white, almost completely male, mostly Indian and Russian Undergrads: 3/50 female, almost completely Romanian Tiranin, that is an odd thing to have as a requirement... Tell me about it. I have nearly fallen asleep twice through "How to do relativistic calculations and transformations". Oh well, on a positive side the Honors side of the class has to do research on a topic, like I said before, which isn't hard but quite informative. Then there's Thermal... which more than makes up for the 21st. My schools demographic is beyond my knowing, but I can speak for the physics department. Total female population? 6. Total male? ~20-30
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:49 pm
Let's think back to undergrad days. There were not that many girls in my physics classes either.
I think it's settled: not many girls in maths or physics. Sad days.
Oh, I can name my college's spread: 51-49, female; I think that's why 75-25, male Imperial wanted to merge [read: "take over"]. XD
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