BLUE SMARTR GPA THREAD FALL 2012

[Abandon]

einstein, if i had to guess

[Indalecia]

He's a dual doctorate, I know one is in Astrophysics. Don't remember other.

[Kipling]

Dual doctorates? Or double majoring? I can't imagine anyone doing two PhD's at the same time... The amount of their lives my friends have poured into one is already intense.

[BerenTebogo]

Double major in astrophysics and computational mathematics. Not doctorate yet, although I am doing some heavy research and trying to publish some significant work before I finish my degrees.

Damn Sath. I remember bombing my Economics 101 class, which killed my dreams of becoming an accountant. Had to call an audible and switch to journalism.

For what it's worth, I dropped out of college numerous times and high school when I was 16. Sometimes shit just doesn't work out at first.

einstein, if i had to guess

<3

[Indalecia]

Meh, close enough.

[BerenTebogo]

Gonna throw this out there for Miz, Woozie, and all the rest in case MaxTM or Neosutra are lurking somewhere around here still.

This is how you act when you have a dream about doing physics. It's more than quoting wiki and Morgan Freeman specials as god on high.

Nevar4get: LHC2010.

The rest of you are amazing though.

[Mythe_Seraph]

I remember when Sath used to post stuff about final fantasy xi

hey remember when we used to post stuff about final fantasy xi

[Indalecia]

I remember when Sath used to post stuff about final fantasy xi

hey remember when we used to post stuff about final fantasy xi

http://funnyasduck.net/wp-content/up...-soon-meme.jpg

[kareface]

Gonna throw this out there for Miz, Woozie, and all the rest in case MaxTM or Neosutra are lurking somewhere around here still.

This is how you act when you have a dream about doing physics. It's more than quoting wiki and Morgan Freeman specials as god on high.

Nevar4get: LHC2010.

The rest of you are amazing though.

Why is your school making you take LA and NLA? That seems redundant. I'm glad to see another physics major, they seem few and far between. I'm doing a double degree in Particle Physics/Mathematics. I'm actually working on a research project looking to find sources of CP-violation. A few of the parity & time reversal hypotheses involve specific spin properties of sub atomic particles and that's what the experiment is looking for. What's nice is the experiment can be conducted at low energies, no need for a supercollider. My part in the research is reducing the contribution of error from the magnetic shielding. I'm modeling the magnetic field and the first few derivatives of it. You are doing numerical analysis, have you worked much with FEM?

[Corrderio]

Advanced Databases - A
Advanced C# - A
Advanced OOP - A
Dynamic Website Development - A
Advanced Technologies - B
Technical Writing - B

[dejet]

intermediate accounting 1: B+( might be A he said depends on the scores of the rest of the class, my grade however falls into B+ )
GenBio: A
Some BS social class:A
stats:A

I also Loved my accounting professor dude was epic. I hand in my final he says "hold on a second" Grades it in 30sec flat and gives me my final grade LOL

Only can go up to A in my school and there is no A- LOL

[Kipling]

19th century European history put me through the ringer this semester.

[isladar]

To be fair 19th century European history put Europe through the ringer, so I wouldn't feel too bad.

[Indalecia]

I'm about to find out. Just signed up for western civ to 1568 or some shit.

[Kipling]

To be fair 19th century European history put Europe through the ringer, so I wouldn't feel too bad.

This is true. I wrote my research paper on Otto von Bismarck, and he's probably become my favorite European figure throughout the entire process.

(Random, but I guess that's my way of trying to say I still did enjoy the class even though it was quite rigorous.)

[Pirian]

I'm about to find out. Just signed up for western civ to 1568 or some shit.

Completely different than 19th century. At my school I think they broke it up into everything before 1700, 1700-1890, and then 1890-present. European history up to 1700 was one of my favorite non-major classes I've taken. My prof brought in full chain mail and a kid tried it on. It went on easily enough, but it took a good 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get it off, lol. Specifically, we just couldn't get the shirt off. The guy wasn't fat, but it clearly wasn't made for him. We finally got it off by getting completely above him and pulling it straight up and off. Ahh, good times as a freshman


On a separate note, any advice on approaching professors for letters of recommendations when you haven't really worked with them? I have 2 main professors that I've worked with in my main interests, but I need 3 for recommendations -.- I pretty much know who I'm going to ask, but I'm not really sure how to approach him out of the blue without being like "Hey, I know you probably don't remember me, but....could you give me a recommendation?" lol. I had his class a year ago, but he teaches a tough class and I was one of the few people with a solid A throughout the semester, so he might remember me.

[dejet]

This is why you need to be in good standing!

Or talk never ending. I would just stop by, iI you where a good student in the last few years they could remember you.

"Hey I was in you _______class last year, did well got an A(+) was hopping to get a letter of recommendation"

Only thing to ask yourself is can they truly speak well about you? I used my history professor for accounting recommendation just because I had wrote 3 papers she loved. Hers was by far the best of all my letter, she blew away my ACC 1/2 professors who I got A's with.

[BerenTebogo]

Why is your school making you take LA and NLA? That seems redundant. I'm glad to see another physics major, they seem few and far between. I'm doing a double degree in Particle Physics/Mathematics. I'm actually working on a research project looking to find sources of CP-violation. A few of the parity & time reversal hypotheses involve specific spin properties of sub atomic particles and that's what the experiment is looking for. What's nice is the experiment can be conducted at low energies, no need for a supercollider. My part in the research is reducing the contribution of error from the magnetic shielding. I'm modeling the magnetic field and the first few derivatives of it. You are doing numerical analysis, have you worked much with FEM?

NLA isn't required, it's just basically higher level computational applications. I haven't personally worked with FEM, but my roommate and friend did a project together using FEM. I'm only very familiar with spectral and radial basis methods, much more the first than the latter.

NLA is supposed to actually get into a lot of FEM, or at least that's what the professor told us. It's a small class and we all know each other so the prof. wants to tailor the class to what we want to learn.

[Natallon]

First semester of medical school:
Anatomy: High Pass
Cell Bio: High Pass
Histology: Pass
Introduction to the Patient: Honors
On Being A Doctor: Honors

Only 7 more semesters of death to go!

[Kipling]

Completely different than 19th century. At my school I think they broke it up into everything before 1700, 1700-1890, and then 1890-present. European history up to 1700 was one of my favorite non-major classes I've taken. My prof brought in full chain mail and a kid tried it on. It went on easily enough, but it took a good 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get it off, lol. Specifically, we just couldn't get the shirt off. The guy wasn't fat, but it clearly wasn't made for him. We finally got it off by getting completely above him and pulling it straight up and off. Ahh, good times as a freshman

Yeah my school does world civ 1 (beginnings of human history until peace of westphalia) and world civ 2 (westphalia until modern times essentially). Since I was taking 19th century Europe at the same time we brushed over a lot of the concepts and important figures/events in world civ 2, but the amount of depth was nowhere the same obviously. Reading multiple books on Napoleon III/Otto von Bismarck and trying to pin down their personalities/goals/motivations and how that affected their diplomacy is always going to be very different from the light mention in world civ 2. But still, at least later on you know who these people are when you hear their name for the first time, haha.

On a separate note, any advice on approaching professors for letters of recommendations when you haven't really worked with them? I have 2 main professors that I've worked with in my main interests, but I need 3 for recommendations -.- I pretty much know who I'm going to ask, but I'm not really sure how to approach him out of the blue without being like "Hey, I know you probably don't remember me, but....could you give me a recommendation?" lol. I had his class a year ago, but he teaches a tough class and I was one of the few people with a solid A throughout the semester, so he might remember me.

I was going to say I only asked professors who had given me A's in the past for one, but you seem to have that done already. When I went back to school and eventually had to transfer from CC I needed a few different letters sent to the various schools I was transferring to, so I just went to the 3 professors I felt I had the best grade in mainly. Because that usually ended up being the ones who remembered me the most, or the ones I had worked with the most (and by that I mean asking questions, discussing, etc). I would say do it in person unless you absolutely can't. I stopped by their office hours and chatted with them about it, one I was not able to reach so I emailed him and he was more than happy to do it as well.