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Hi Guys! I'm a student studying undergrad Sophomore, pursuing Honors B.S. in Physics and Applied Math. I have been looking up Princeton Program in Plasma Physics (PPPL) and got very interested in their research in nuclear fusion. Any advice on how to get good/prepared enough to have high odds of...

Hello everyone, I am a second-year Electrical Engineering student, and my ultimate goal and dream is to work in space exploration. During my studies, I’ve realized that I am much more drawn to theoretical fields involving physics and mathematics than to technical fields like circuits and...

Hi, it's Mike from Barcelona. I'm a chemist and I completed half of a physics degree, but due to work reasons I had to drop out. I'm currently working in the mornings and in the afternoons I'm studying on my own the MIT OCW physics program (I'm currently at 8.03 and 8.04 and about to finish...

I just had an idea. I thought of two bits of advice today that I often give as common mottoes. They are as general as the aphorisms found in fortune cookies. I could imagine that others have similar phrases they use or used to advise their students. So here it is, the thread that gathers such...

Must admit I'm here just to beg some advice on optics, but I hope it won't be seen as too much of a liberty!

Is Geometrical Optics (GO) essential to fully appreciate the nature of light? I absolutely love Wave Optics (WO) and am currently studying it at the undergraduate level. However, GO feels more like an applied science, where I’m mostly dealing with the geometry of small angles. It doesn’t give me...

Recently @Ackbach posted a thread “Discuss Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice”. He cites an article from PLOS (Public Library of Science) “Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice”. The article references the article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple...

Hello! I am a passionate math student wanting advice on how to succeed and go far in a math competition called Math Counts, a mostly word problem-based competition for grades 6-8. Anything helps! Thank you!

I’m in my 2nd year of a B.Sc. in Physics and unsure which field to pursue. I thought my next career would be based on what I'm interested in, but there are many fields in physics, and I don’t know where to start my self-study to explore them. What should I begin with?

TL;DR Summary: I am interested in computer science and I want some advice for this amazing field. I am good at math and logic, and I think programming is a learnable skill. I want to go into AI development/Machine learning, or cybersecurity. I am currently learning Python and by the end of the...

This is just meant to be a subtle energy releaser as I feel pent up about this situation. I have always been an A+ (B at my lowest) student and going into my harder physics classes has been proven a bit more difficult for me to adjust. I am retaking theoretical physics as I withdrew last...

Hello, I graduated from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering with a degree in Engineering Physics in 2019. I performed extremely poorly academically, made no friends/connections, and have not been employed since then. I will be posting a more detailed post asking for some advice.

Can you give me some advice about what I can do to be distinct in my university major "Mechanical Engineering" thank you

I started studying mechanical engineering, where I started thinking about things that might make me a successful and highly competent engineer in the near future. Then I started searching through artificial intelligence tools for useful sites for me as a mechanical engineering student, and your...

Hi, I am a first year college student who is currently taking intro to physics course. With the way this course is designed, it is definitely not beginner friendly as I took physics for two years straight in high school and is still a little confused. To add to injury, I also just bombed my...

I'm in my last 2 years of high school, and I have to pick a speciality to study before becoming an undergraduate and studying in college. In the future, I'm hoping to become an experimental physicist. My high school offers 3 specialities that are relevant to physics to pick from, all of them...

Hi, I'm an undergraduate student in the US going into their 3rd year (of 4), and I can start to feel the weight of deciding what to do after my undergraduate studies. I'll break down the concerns into 2 main questions, and any advice is greatly appreciated! For context, I am on track to finish...