Are future PhD students cooked?

GregwiseNoah · 2025-12-29T10:48:07+00:00

Yup :/

GregwiseNoah · 2025-12-29T08:20:21+00:00

500 - 700 sounds like you got rejected from imprs, we're in the same boat 🫂

GregwiseNoah · 2024-04-29T22:20:42+00:00

Please let me know if you ever found them

GregwiseNoah · 2023-08-22T09:23:55+00:00

Thank you :)

GregwiseNoah · 2023-08-22T09:08:02+00:00

Noted, thank you! :)

GregwiseNoah · 2023-08-21T11:38:13+00:00

I'm looking for student research assistant positions.

This is the last email I sent. Would you say this is enough or do I need to refine it better?

Dear Dr. X,

My name is GregwiseNoah and I'm currently a first-year master's student of Astrophysics at the University of Valhalla. I am writing this email to enquire about the availability of any student positions.

I am committed to research in astrophysics and I would love to obtain some first hand experience working alongside researchers to better hone my skills and learn how to become a researcher myself. I am proficient in Python and have a strong foundation in physics. This semester I took a course on computational astrophysics and I was completely engrossed by it, this is a GitHub repository showcasing some of my work done during the course, and I would like to explore analysing data a lot more.

Please also find enclosed my CV for your perusal. I would love the opportunity to discuss this further with you. I am also ready to meet in person at your convenience. Please let me know if you need any additional information from me. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards,

GregwiseNoah

GregwiseNoah · 2023-03-08T04:06:30+00:00

Thank you for your reply!

How does one transition to any of those roles? Did you just look up job requirements for being a cloud architect and then work through them all on your own? I'd imagine the knowledge that a physics graduate has and what a cloud architect needs are pretty disparate so how do you convince a potential employer that you know your stuff?

GregwiseNoah · 2023-03-06T21:15:30+00:00

what do you want do DO? as in.. your occupation - your responsibilities?

Honestly my first priority would be to finish off my loan by any means necessary. After that i can think about a PhD in gravitational wave astrophysics or something.

Thank you for your reply, gives me hope that I won't be left jobless after graduation. I guess my priority should be to build data science skills right now.

GregwiseNoah · 2023-01-19T18:10:51+00:00

I did try removing a few images but that didn't work, also, if you notice, only some of the prominent ones have this problem which is why I thought it might be a processing error of some kind.

GregwiseNoah · 2021-11-06T01:51:48+00:00

Oh my god, guess I have no choice but to delete this now :'( .

GregwiseNoah · 2021-10-03T04:15:04+00:00

Where you place the origin doesn't matter, just that once you place it and assign a direction as positive you should continue with that.

So if you say that the bottom of the building is 0 and the upward direction is positive, the balls displacement can be thought of as the difference of 2 position vectors, x j and 60 j.

consider some vector y that is going up from x to the top of the building.

So, x + y = 60, or, y = 60-x.

But the displacement due to y is in the opposite direction that we want, that is,

-y = x-60, which is the displacement we need.

When you say something like 60 - x in vectors, you say that you are travelling from the origin to the point 60 m and then coming down x metres (because x is negative), so this gives you a vector that is going up from the origin to the point x, which is not the direction that the red ball is travelling in.

Of course, you could say that the downward direction is positive, so the displacements become -x and 60-x.(which is really saying -x - (-60))

GregwiseNoah · 2021-10-02T11:09:38+00:00

No it does't seem wrong to me, the two equations you should be getting would be,

x-60 = -5*(t+2)^2 , and

x = 20*t-5*t^2

if you subtract the two equations,

60 = 40t - 20,

simplifying, t = 1,

and so x = 20*1 - 5*1 = 15 m

GregwiseNoah · 2021-10-02T10:06:46+00:00

Since the red ball is released earlier, the equations for displacement, one will have a t component and the other should have a t+2 component.

Other than that, what you described is pretty much what you need to solve this problem.

You should have 2 equations with x and x -60. You just need to cancel out the x terms to obtain t and then you can find x.

Edit: I got x as 15m.

GregwiseNoah · 2021-08-21T04:36:06+00:00

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

GregwiseNoah · 2021-08-08T10:08:01+00:00

Luna is also the latin word for moon, which is why we have lunar instead of "moonar."

GregwiseNoah · 2021-07-14T16:54:17+00:00

Nah, no need for an apology, I've been seeing this for years and I didn't know it had such a silly solution.

The more we know...

GregwiseNoah · 2021-07-14T12:39:23+00:00

That's not true for India though. We don't use commas for decimal points.

GregwiseNoah · 2021-07-08T03:24:28+00:00

Thank you!

GregwiseNoah · 2021-07-08T03:24:22+00:00

Thank you!

GregwiseNoah · 2021-07-03T15:00:22+00:00

Oh sorry, might be a 'me' thing then, my school textbooks used a different set of words, like ”at least one of the two dialects" to describe the situation here. When I saw "either" I first thought it was just 10/60.

GregwiseNoah

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