i think i kind of know the feeling. i'm going through the same "who do i ask" about student teaching (even though student teaching does not equal grad school in the least). I just don't feel like i have any connections anywhere. but GOOD LUCK and take a minute to laugh about something until your side hurts. and then tell me what it was because i need a good laugh :)
Wait, I can explain what's going on in 535? That's news to me. Maybe you've confused this with the fact that I can explain why we shouldn't necessarily know what's going on. Remember that he congratulated those of us that understood anything he went through on the first day of the electroweak standard model? Just sitting through the lecture without crying is something of an accomplishment.
I'm not in too much better a situation in regards to grad school, though I have at least two recommendations mostly sorted out (nobody academic, and my GPA is non-impressive enough that I'll need an academic one) and some general ideas as to where I'll be applying. But I have very little expectation of getting in anywhere, even here (even though the admissions committee apparently feels "a special obligation" to people applying from here, says my research advisor), so I need to spend like $2000 applying practically everywhere. There's got to be some kind of organizational system to handle all these badly-designed physics department websites. Worst.
Heh. You know what's going on about a hundred times more than me. Half the time I don't even know what a matrix is.. or at least that's what it feels like.
What do you mean by a "non-academic" recommendation?
Ah. Well, that's my problem - I haven't done any research work, so I can't get any of those sorts of recommendations. So far I only have one from Zweibel, but she said that she doesn't really have much to say besides "He's done well in my class." I fear I'll get the same sort of responses from any other teachers I ask.
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I know we haven't chatted in awhile, but I hope you have fun for your birthday and that you get to forget about everything for a bit.
And always remember the condom balloons. And love handshakes.
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I'm not in too much better a situation in regards to grad school, though I have at least two recommendations mostly sorted out (nobody academic, and my GPA is non-impressive enough that I'll need an academic one) and some general ideas as to where I'll be applying. But I have very little expectation of getting in anywhere, even here (even though the admissions committee apparently feels "a special obligation" to people applying from here, says my research advisor), so I need to spend like $2000 applying practically everywhere. There's got to be some kind of organizational system to handle all these badly-designed physics department websites. Worst.
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What do you mean by a "non-academic" recommendation?
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I mean a recommendation from someone I've done lab/research work with rather than from someone I've taken a course with.
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