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Undergraduate To Medical School.?


I am about to be a high school Senior in a few weeks, and decided on pursuing a career as a doctor. I’ve been researching on possible Medical Schools and college, but I was wondering a tiny detail.
Colleges such as Columbia, NYU, Stonybrook, and now Hofstra have a Medical School, and are also possible choices for me after high school as well. Say I attended Hofstra, or any other school, and then applied to that schools Medical School as well. Would I have any sort of advantage because I went through my undergraduate years there?
Also as a side question, Hofstra is affiliated with North Shore LIJ, and I began volunteering in their ER as a shadow and observer to the ER staff, and plan to continue my volunteer for the foreseeable future, so would the fact that I am somewhat affiliated with Hofstra’s affiliations, would I stand out favorably?
I’m not relying on these ways to get into college and Medical School, but I was wondering if they would serve to my advantage more than somebody with similar grades or slightly better grades than me.
I don’t really know too much about Hofstra’s Medical School Program as its still new, but i have an overall average of a 96 so far, took a very rigorous course load throughout high school, and am thinking about majoring in Physics as I have heard it might help me stand out and I enjoy Physics a lot anyway. My high school is a Catholic school if that makes a difference.
What are my chances in general, or my outlook?

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Will Or Can A Girl Like Me?


1. i am shy. i can’t find topics on the spot or have a good convo. i talk to the point but i try to participate and contribute and learn. i am straightforward. but i am not a boor, infact i appear elegant.
2. i don’t read novels, books, magazines – because i don’t get much time, but once i settle down in my work life, i definitely will because i like it.
3. my physics, bio, history, geography don’t look like i didn’t go to school but then they are not good either. However whatever time i get, i spend reading all this and improving my knowledge.
3. i dont talk much socially thinking i will say something foolish and people will make fun.
4. i topped in my school which is the best in town. but i think i was just a bookworm throughout. I have very less XP in life, but I am trying to focus on one area and find my niche.
5. i am lenient & cool. i am not perfect but not fastidious. “let it go” till it is very serious – that is what i like. i don’t make fun of people unless they deserve a middle finger. i have a soft corner for hapless and poor.
6. i am a music freak.
7. i like laughing all the time, and create good humor, sometimes it can be a big PJ or just because i want to find humor. it’s harmless.
8. lastly, i will love my girl and will do anything for her. Well to drop a few lines, a girl i see. she is so beautiful, looks damn stylish, and i am afraid to go and talk to her because i am shy (but she doesn’t seem). I refrain from introducing myself cuz i am shy and she seems indifferent. i don’t have the courage.
Can a girl like such a person?
Thanks, pl pl pl answer this. 10 points are all yours 🙂

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Engineering Opportunities?


I do not know enough information nor would I trust a recruiter to give me a good picture of what I may face to draw a good conclusion about what opportunities I could be presented… I have a passion for physics, blowing things up, guns, programming and engineering. I have absolutely no desire to be the man behind the iron sights pulling a trigger, but if there is some way to get involved in some R&D with the military and I was given some realistic information, I would have a much firmer basis for what path I wish to follow, being non-military affiliated or performing some kind of engineering under subjects I am greatly passionate about.
I simply wish I had a source of honest information lacking the patriotic propoganda that the advertisements for the army and the recruiters could try to press into my mind.

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Why Do I Hate Sixth Form So Much?


It’s silly how much I hate my sixth form. It’s at the same school I’ve been at for the last 5 years, which doesnt help because it’s mostly full of people I dont like and couldnt trust as far as I could throw. Im not sure if it’s the atmosphere that “I dont actually HAVE to be here”, that is making me so unmotivated and depressed that I actually am there.
So, some backstory. I’ve taken Maths, Physics, Economics and Modern History as my courses. I got straight As in my GCSEs, with one A* in History. I would like to go on and study history further, and hopefully take it up as a career, but from what I can gather it is very much a niche industry with few career opportunities. My parents basically demanded that I took either maths or english as an A-Level, which I suppose is fair enough as my only priorities where economics and history at the time of choosing. I hated them both but didnt find maths too difficult so I went with maths, thinking that such a subject would give me a good spread and open up more options. Oh, was I sorely mistaken. It’s the most ridiculously difficult thing I’ve ever attempted. As I said I hate maths anyway, so couple that with the fact that I have absolutely no desire whatsoever to use all these stupid equations and theorems at any single point beyond my A-levels means I literally cannot be arsed with it 1% of the time. The lessons just pass me by and go way over my head, I furiously scribble down formulae that are totally meaningless to me. I have a modular exam after the holidays, the thought of having to teach myself the whole thing through christmas makes me want to give up. I dont know why I never asked for help, maybe I thought it’d click eventually like everything at school has throughout my life, maybe it was because i was too damn embarassed to come clean and admit that I cannot understand the first thing about AS mathematics.
On to physics, well, I decided I should probably choose a science, for no other reason that it will look good on my CV. In both phsyics and biology I was only a few points off an A* so it was a tossup between the two, although I went with physics because I thought it’d accompany maths well. Again, BIG mistake. It’s just a million more equations that you have to memorise, and again, I have no desire to use these things ever again.
Economics and history are OK. But right now, halfway through my first year of college/6th form, I just feel like the next year and a half will be the hardest and most depressing of my life…But then, after that…UNIVERSITY. YIPPEE, more work, but guess what? DEBT. YAY. Dont get me started on what I imagine i’ll be doing for the following 40 years of my life, I just have no clue whatsoever, the outside world is just one huge scary monster I want to hide away from. I want no part of it. I’m not good enough at maths or physics to get a wellpaid job in science, I’d imagine that even if you’re good at economics (one of the best in my class) you’d need a good maths grade to get a job related to it, and history has few career opportunities. My parents (mother in particular) are really putting pressure on me to do anything other than history for this reason. I suspect they are simply protecting me from a bleak future of unreliable employment.
Anywaaay, like I said socially I have the appeal of a bumblebee to most people, and now my grades are failing. I just have no idea what to do. If I hear the words “work harder” again I think I’ll lose the will to live. I just dont know who to talk to and so I cry for help on the internet.

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Transferring To College?


Hi, I’m a 17 year old freshman engineering student currently attending the Rutgers University School in New Brunswick, NJ. I live in New Jersey and decided to attend Rutgers because it is close to home, and I commute. Although I finished well in high school, I suffered from severe anxiety problems and depression. With this in addition to my severe lack of social skills, my parents and psychiatrist decided that it would be dangerous for me to go away my first year of college. It was a challenge for me just to communicate with the other person in my dorm. Emotionally, I wasn’t ready to travel far away from home where I would have to be self-dependent. Until recently, my mom was driving me to classes because I wasn’t mature enough to learn to drive.
I would like to transfer to a more elite engineering school that would assist me in being able to attend the graduate/post graduate school of my choice. Here is some of my info:
Finished high school with a 4.1 weighted gpa (3.6 unweighted) with all honors and AP
attended a competitive public high school, graduated top 10% in class of 500
5 on AP Calculus BC exam, 5 on Physics B and C exams (high school didn’t offer AP Physics C, I taught it myself), 5 on chemistry and biology
800 on both Math IIC Test and Physics
2350 SAT Reasoning (50 points from 12 on essay)
Science League Member in High school
Completed a course in multivariable calculus and Physics second semester in highschool at Rutgers with both A’s
enrolled in Honors Program
College GPA- 3.94 Dean’s List
Applied Math and Physics dual major (Honors)
– Several Physics awards and recognitions
– Lots of research since high school, primarily in condensed matter physics,including some published in Physics Review Letters with professor
– invited to meetings of American Physical Society
– I also know several professors, one affiliated with my dream school Caltech, who will all write me great recommendations
This is an abridgment of some of my most important achievements. Do I stand a chance in the highly selective transfer admissions?

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