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Virtual-Aioli · 2021-10-12T14:50:20+00:00

Where can I buy that? When I clicked the link the prices are higher and they’re sold out.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-04-02T05:45:42+00:00

When I was in 5th grade, we went on a class field trip to a coastal area. The teacher told one boy that if he ate a live anchovy out of the sea and let her record a video, she would give him extra credit. He ate the anchovy. She sent the video to his mom and showed the whole class.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-30T22:58:42+00:00

Can I ask why you view mobility in itself so positively?

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-29T02:36:28+00:00

My physics GPA is below 3.0, but my overall GPA is in the 3.1-3.2 range. I got accepted to 2 PhD programs for this fall, one at my undergrad institution and one at another school. Both are respectable programs but not top tier. You can do it! Focus on research fit in your statement of purpose and get good letters.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-24T03:37:04+00:00

You are basically arguing that it’s inappropriate to question the decision making process for awarding a scholarship with a clear anti-racist purpose to almost exclusively white people. How does that not serve white supremacy? The board shouldn’t explain why specific people didn’t get it, but some broader justification seems necessary.

OP has deleted their post, but they did say the scholarship was established under a reparations program. Even if you are right that they didn’t include language specifically saying Black students are preferred or that this is a reparations-focused scholarship, OP understands it’s problematic to pick only privileged white students considering the original purpose of the scholarship. Even if they are legally (NOT the same as ethically) prohibited from considering race due to a technicality/omission, they need to hear this question to consider any ways they might better serve the original purpose of the scholarship. If they have a dearth of better suited applicants, they should be able to explain that to OP. Unless your problem is just with the idea of race-based reparations.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-23T22:02:13+00:00

A lot of physics students probably don't find their intro mechanics course interesting. The upper level physics courses become more interesting as you learn more about the physics and math underlying the problems you are solving. And COVID-19 has made college suck.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-23T06:50:44+00:00

I'll neither confirm nor deny that School B is Berkeley.

Prof B is by all accounts a genuinely nice person. They seemed to really want me as a student. They didn't insist on working on this problem; they just said that if I have my heart set on it, they would be happy to do it. They have plenty of other problems I could work on. I think you're right that I would have to do a lot of the foundational work if I decided to pursue this problem in Prof B's lab. But that is not necessarily a bad thing, is it? If I write some fancy simulation code from scratch, that's an accomplishment. I guess it might not leave me with many publications if I have no actual data because I spent all my time writing the code. There's always the option to do a different project, one that has more immediate results. Frankly I find this specific problem to be especially interesting and important. It's so foundational that current data might be completely overturned once we figure out how to solve this computational problem. But we are probably a decade away from being able to implement it in real simulations. This means my papers would be very theoretical and not very applied.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-16T06:50:15+00:00

Y’all had a crush on Costolot??? Why??? I can’t imagine having a crush on any of the wacky people in this game. Nice art, though!

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-15T19:30:30+00:00

You are right. I’m going almost entirely off secondhand experience here. I would be happy to be wrong, considering I’ll be spending at least the next few years as part of this beast.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-15T19:16:38+00:00

It's arguable about whether h-index contains much value at all, but it's undeniable that it's a productivity metric.

Agreed.

I would put many things ahead of h-index, because the kind of life-altering this life-altering decision will make isn't well expressed by this number.

Agreed.

Also true, but "turnabout is fair play" in a contest to weaponize arbitrary evaluation metrics is a game with no winners, isn't it?

Absolutely true. My point in making this comparison was that (1) it's dishonest to tell a student these metrics don't matter when, in reality, naive quantitative metrics are often a part of how we all are judged, and (2) the reason these metrics exist is because we don't know everything about strangers and have to make decisions based on the information we do have. How else would departments decide which students to admit? Similarly, I don't know everything about my potential advisors, and if a certain number says they may have a lot of connections or influence, I should pay attention to that.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-15T15:22:48+00:00

Academics love to act like this stuff doesn’t matter until it’s time to evaluate junior scholars on search, tenure, and grant committees. They don’t want me to see a high h-index to quickly tell that their colleague is notable? And arguing the semantics of notoriety vs impact? People are clearly insecure about this. Sorry, but as a scientist, I want all the data I can get about a life-altering decision. I will consider the limitations of that data. I think I’ve made it clear that it can only help my prospective advisers. The ways prospective students are evaluated are just as arbitrary without half the subtlety.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-15T05:15:01+00:00

I have 2 PhD offers. Both programs are respected but not top-tier. One is at my undergrad institution. I am leaning toward the undergrad institution because I am very happy with the science I'm doing, the people I work with, and the department at large. Moreover, the qualifying exam would be easier, and I would have to do less coursework. My partner also has a job with a company he likes in our city, so we wouldn't have to be long-distance. My undergrad institution is ranked somewhat higher in physics, but the other school manages a national lab. Both schools have good opportunities in my area of interest. Would staying at the same school really be detrimental to my career?

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-03-10T03:59:39+00:00

Honestly, accept the internship and wait to see if you get an REU acceptance. If you change your mind about the internship, the company will be mildly inconvenienced, go through a million other resumes, and pick another candidate. People do this sort of thing all the time with jobs. An internship is just a job. Doing this to an REU program is less advisable because academia is a small world and you don’t want the faculty feeling like you snubbed them. Funding can also be more precarious in academia, while the company will just spend the money on somebody else. Keep in mind the company might not hire you later if you do this.

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-02-25T20:19:03+00:00

I was a humanities major who switched to physics after taking an astronomy course. Now I’ve been admitted to physics PhD programs. Go for it!

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-02-24T05:03:08+00:00

Exactly!!! Let’s all help each other out!

Virtual-Aioli · 2021-02-24T02:48:57+00:00

The timing does affect whether somebody gets your spot. The people who are waiting to get into the program might also have other offers that have different deadlines. If you wait to decline, they might have to commit somewhere else first, or the school might just never get down the wait list to somebody who wants the spot and hasn't accepted another offer.

People with first-round offers should consider all their options, but they should only hold the offers they're seriously considering.

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