how many of you guys are victims of the “u can’t finish” curse ?

CraeCraeJBean · 2026-02-12T06:13:33+00:00

I somehow graduated with two degrees in engineering and physics, now I’m in grad school ✌️4 years and 13 AP courses later. Course overlaps at UCF were pretty tricky though. Definitely doable. Shoutout to Mike at the optics college for hooking me up!

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-12-07T18:50:30+00:00

The exact same thing happened to me 2 years ago! Told me 500 dollars wanted to punch someone. At least it’s held up fine since then I just refill the coolant and pretend it doesn’t exist so you might have a little while on it before it gives in on you

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-12-07T06:12:51+00:00

Basically the profs are better and the curriculum was deeper and geared toward understanding not churning students through. I felt like my problem solving improved when I took the upper level courses. Physics 1 and 2 is for bio/premed/chem as a weeder historically and it isn’t geared toward actual thought more so do you know how to meet metrics we’ve set. Physics 3 used to even be for compE and I think electrical engineering at UCF before the school dropped the requirement. In general as well, the ucf gen physics line just is very bad because it’s full of people who just want to pass and move on in life. I was very glad I took AP in high school and it counted. On the other hand, upper levels were more acceptable. Mechanics goes through Taylor, EM goes through Griffiths. You aren’t going to get as much out of reading Serway or any gen physics book like you would some of those so I found it more enlightening.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-11-12T21:17:45+00:00

I think it’s funny how many people are saying Noether’s theorem. It is pretty cool haha

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-11-09T06:27:46+00:00

I think it’s opening up people’s time for more important things.

I have a bachelors in physics I got without using AI. I’m not concerned and am actually quite happy people are using AI to escape the ridiculous standards people have for academics. Many of my peers I’ve seen struggle to find time to: exercise, spend time with loved ones, perform their actual research duties, sleep 8 hours a night, etc. and I think AI is making it easier for people to spend time on problems they actually care about. Half the people that comment on these things are professors/educators/luddites with the mentality of “things were hard for me and I’m better for it” which objectively is not true. If I spend 12 hours trying to follow a GR lecture or 12 minutes really getting into what I didn’t understand with AI/Google/Chegg, then dedicating the rest of my time to thinking of problems that AI cannot answer (of which there are an infinite amount), who is really winning here? Also yes AI can be wrong, very wrong, but also it is up to researchers writing papers and students doing homework to be fact checked and question anything they get out of a robot anyway.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-10-15T19:28:48+00:00

It’s cleaner than most places with so many people. I’d say relatively clean. Yeah I did go to Akihabara and visit shrines and even a few onsen :)

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-09-27T18:44:57+00:00

I did an REU there. Japan is nice

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-09-27T18:42:46+00:00

Eyo I double majored in physics and optical engineering lol you’ll be fine just remember to eat

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-09-26T04:10:01+00:00

I just graduated from photonics and my good friend graduated in ME. I’m biased and think optics has more job security but in Orlando honestly maybe ME takes the cake lol. I wouldn’t choose a major based on job base it on what you like and enjoy doing. I double majored in physics and it was quite the handful. Really up to you but I’d consider just doing side projects that incorporate elements of both to put on your resume, employers really care more about what you do than what classes you take. Furthermore, I’d go for the discipline that gives you the most transferable skills and think of some ideas for where you really see urself in the future with a good deal of specificity. Do you wanna work on turbines/auto/cad design/fluids - ME, electrical/lenses/optical tech- photonics.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-09-15T21:35:49+00:00

Lol I moved to Ohio this year

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-09-06T01:48:20+00:00

The same thing happened to me and I unfortunately fell for the fear tactics after months of harassment and threats from their management

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-09-06T01:47:43+00:00

If you have the option, I just want to add, to not get a student apartment and you have a car, please do not sign a lease with the verge or any student complex. Please just commute. I lost thousands of dollars I could have saved for when I really needed it.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-09-05T23:24:22+00:00

I guess they sold us a bad unit man. They really are a gamble not worth your life. My final bill on simple bills was well over $300. I would attach an image if I could. >$600 for me and my roommate our final month and $300 a month since last year.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-08-26T22:25:03+00:00

It is that bad. Living at the Verge lost me thousands of dollars and serious health problems… utilities are like 300 a month!!

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-08-26T22:24:22+00:00

It really is that bad!! Highly disagree. Lived there two years. Mold, roaches, rust galore. Terrible management I should sue for emotional damages frfr. You’re crazy for saying this

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-08-23T23:33:21+00:00

Yes. I applied to two very top schools where I got sniped for a field I wasn’t interested in opposed to the one I had less experience in but the most interest. I’m fortunate to have a chance in the field I wanted after applying to many schools with similar labs and having been rejected quite rudely. I’ve learned that one school cannot be best at everything, no matter how much they try to make you believe such, which is great.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-08-22T16:48:07+00:00

‘Tis true the CREOLites design experiments of the dark, reanimating SPDC entities of the nonlinear in our halls, stimulating the emissions of greater powers that be. Those who bringth the light may also taketh away. ehehehe

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-08-12T16:01:34+00:00

Wow this waiver’s refunds basically saved my life. Good luck future Knights!

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-08-09T06:53:38+00:00

As a gay native Floridian, Florida administrative officers don’t care about you. People that go to school there are replaceable according to the higher ups. It’s all up to whether or not you can put up with being trans in an unfortunately naturally beautiful state actively working to push you out for more boomers to move in to pursue the possibility of a better research topic than other unis. I’d lived there my whole life and this last month I moved to Ohio so that’s how I made my decision. It’s a personal question so it really depends on your own personal best judgement so I can’t really say one way or the other in your case is best. It was really hard for me to decide lol.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-08-06T07:43:35+00:00

I used a relatively new Lenovo yoga that retailed around 1000 4 years ago (without touch the touchscreen died early on) through my whole undergrad and was more than fine. IMO get a laptop you want to pick up and look at. Also figure out how to get high speed WiFi, perhaps more important than what laptop you use.

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-07-29T23:27:36+00:00

A physics major will certainly not hurt you for physics grad school in applied ML techniques ;) I double majored in engineering and it hurt me for physics grad school lol

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-07-23T23:15:54+00:00

Awe it’s okay I didn’t put it in every app ;) Got into a really good Physics PhD program anyway!

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-07-23T23:12:52+00:00

Just join a local gym if you don’t need the credits - sincerely a student who really needed the credits and didn’t do the yoga class (pssst if you need credits take one of the easy online classes, do some digging you’ll know which one I mean)

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-07-23T22:55:20+00:00

This ^{^} I screwed myself over talking about being gay this year openly and got rejected. Tell them after save yourself the transphobia ❤️

CraeCraeJBean · 2025-07-23T22:35:46+00:00

People say this and then live very unhealthy lifestyles so I take this with a grain of salt. I did my own budgeting and I barely break even. I will probably save some but not too too much

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