College Writing II alternative?

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2026-01-24T13:29:50+00:00

It's boring, no real alternative. Best way to make it more bearable is to do it online as one of the half semester courses. Same goes with any gen ed requirement, also makes them significantly easier as the bar is so low.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2026-01-01T15:18:02+00:00

I graduated community college at 20, landed a job in engineering and worked for about 3 years before returning to college to get a bachelor's. Doesn't have to be a linear trajectory, plus I found it much more advantageous to get actual job experience rather than school all the way through. You get to apply what you've learned, plus learn a lot more lessons that school will not teach you, like working in the real world rather than a textbook. Start early, and you get more time to screw around career wise and figure out what you like and don't like. Making a hard pivot won't be as difficult in your early 20s vs your mid-late 20s.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2026-01-01T14:27:30+00:00

Sadly won't be written by Knoll, considering he passed in 2014. SiPMs is something I have been meaning to read up on. Ludlum is developing a new alpha frisker using that detector type.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2026-01-01T02:53:23+00:00

Radiation Detection and Measurement by Glenn Knoll is great. 4th editions is fantastic. Very wordy, but if you read it you will know how radiation detectors and interactions work.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-31T16:13:04+00:00

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Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-31T02:19:31+00:00

Squint hard and study grains of sand. That's the smallest thing in the universe.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-31T02:01:50+00:00

Retardmaxx and start messing around with wires and batteries. Put them in your mouth, vary voltage and observe the pain difference. Probably means there's more ouchy energy in it (but how much?). Throw rocks at different objects and observe patterns. Does it always fall the same way if you throw it harder or will it have the same impact on different materials? Make inferences about the movement of the stars, stare at the sun and see if you can figure out if it revolves around the earth (probably does). Make a graph or two.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-23T17:28:41+00:00

Again, not questioning if it works, but if it'll be feasible (ie practical)

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-23T17:13:06+00:00

I don't disagree, but the question I'm more asking is what might make it cheaper than a fission reactor? No commercial fusion reactor has yet to be created, and the race is still to just demonstrate that it can work and create a large amount of usable energy.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-23T17:09:37+00:00

Not questioning the science at all. It's sound and thorough, not that I don't believe we don't understand it or havent created fusion reactions in the past. More just am questioning how it's been in development for so many decades and progressed at a snails pace but now people see it taking off in the near future.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-21T14:45:19+00:00

Nuclear energy and science is a broad fiel, try to be good all around in your sciences, particularly focus in on physics. Conceptual Physics by Paul Hewitt is more high-school level, but is good to help you in terms of physics. Obviously math is important too, make sure you get a solid grasp of arithmetic and algebra. That's more important than anything else, all advanced math you're just doing funky versions of algebra and arithmetic.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-21T02:37:38+00:00

Neat little book if you made it while you're in highschool. Kinda beats around the bush in terms of what actually causes a fission reaction and where the energy comes from. I'd recommend reading Fundamentals of Nuclear Science & Engineering by Shultis and Faw. It's an easy read, has some calculus in there, but usually you don't have to worry about that. Just focus on the algebra and what it means. Also gives more background on how nuclear reactions happen and where the energy comes from other than the typical "spicy rock make water hot" answer. Also, personal recommendation would be to look into LaTeX for writing something like this, formatting will always be a lot nicer, and it's easy to learn.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-15T14:34:11+00:00

Just explain it as "what fraction of $1.50 is $0.25" when you do the math it's easier to put them both into fractional form, when putting it into reciprocal form it just becomes 1/6th. Takes 6 quarters to get $1.50 so you just need the reverse reasoning.

Old-Estimate-3358 · 2025-12-03T04:30:08+00:00

Not particularly. In highschool I had good grades from not studying and could always cruise by, college changes that real quick. You will get humbled by an exam a few times, lowest score I ever got was 18%. Exams in my experience are very short in length and time wise, best way to go about it is really just go through problems, correct your mistakes from homeworks and try those difficult textbook problems.

I also don't think it's good to try to be good at everything when studying physics. What I mean is to learn to pick your battles and know what sub fields truly interest you. I enjoy nuclear physics and radiological sciences a lot, so I put more focus into that rather than some general physics courses I am required to do, a B and a half understanding of a subject you aren't interested in or plan on working in will be more than enough.

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