***Mr. Awesome's Noble November Cash Thread

[vanquish]

Idk, didn't think it would be this hard, but I'm actually struggling

Thinking about just dropping it by Friday

Physics past like the most basic level is impossible. Drop it and take a lit class or something

 

[acky100]

Biology > Chemistry > Men > Physics

 

[vanquish]

you're more interested in men than you are in physics huh acky

 

[Stu_Ungar]

Physics is either the methodology and observation of speeding up quantum partials to near light speeds; a process by which scientists hope to to gain an understanding of the origins of the universe, or its melting ice in a bucket and meticulously documenting the fact that ice, does indeed, need to be kept chilled.

 

[TylerN]

sick level

 

[acky100]

you're more interested in men than you are in physics huh acky

It's close


Did physics for A-level and struggled a lot! I do think some of it's interesting but some stuff like Stu said is just, balls.

 

[vanquish]

my main point about physics is that you probably shouldn't pursue it unless you really like it. you're more than likely to end up in academia where you end up dealing with fierce politics, very small disparities in salary, and lots of boring researchy work. this is much more survivable if you at least enjoy learning about whatever microparticles you're reading 500pg books about.

my friend's brother decided he wants to be a physicist and i think he already hates his life and he's only in 3rd year of university

 

[acky100]

academics are very strange creatures, id imagine physics ones would be the strangest of all. no pun intended.

 

[Cafeman]

Tend to agree with vanquish. For most of the reasons he outlined, I quit when my post doc research contract ended - on top of which, in order to be kept on I was told I would have to start lecturing too... yeah rrright, sitting there staring at a bunch of b*stards like you lot for hours on end... I don't think so! No offence intended

 

[acky100]

Tend to agree with vanquish. For most of the reasons he outlined, I quit when my post doc research contract ended - on top of which, in order to be kept on I was told I would have to start lecturing too... yeah rrright, sitting there staring at a bunch of b*stards like you lot for hours on end... I don't think so! No offence intended

Offence taken How sweet would a degree in poker be though, i would go to lectures so much more often! You could have modules in Probability, Psychology, etc etc

 

[micromachine]

academics are very strange creatures, id imagine physics ones would be the strangest of all. no pun intended.

I work in academia and I have met many strange individuals along the way Biology though, not physics, I prefer to be able to see what I am working on (through a microscope of course)

Tend to agree with vanquish. For most of the reasons he outlined, I quit when my post doc research contract ended - on top of which, in order to be kept on I was told I would have to start lecturing too... yeah rrright, sitting there staring at a bunch of b*stards like you lot for hours on end... I don't think so! No offence intended

So you're a PhD too Cafeman! Physics geek are/were you?

 

[vanquish]

so my last day of work is nov 18th. i'm going to get super duper drunk on that day

 

[Cafeman]

Offence taken

Good!

Physics geek are/were you?

Mathematical modelling of blood flow in the brain, you know, and stats and stuff. Sounds clever but it was the people I was working with who really knew what they were doing... fortunately

 

[micromachine]

Sounds clever but it was the people I was working with who really knew what they were doing... fortunately

Yeah I feel like that sometimes but we would kick their asses at poker

 

[TylerN]

give me ur skype micromachine. were drafting new soldiers

 

[acky100]

I work in academia and I have met many strange individuals along the way Biology though, not physics, I prefer to be able to see what I am working on (through a microscope of course)

Sweet, im doing a degree in biology at the moment, will call on you for help now on haha.

 

[vanquish]

Mathematical modelling of blood flow in the brain, you know, and stats and stuff. Sounds clever but it was the people I was working with who really knew what they were doing... fortunately

hm thats pretty interesting. my dad is a physiologist and studies the effects of stroke under various conditions. i worked in his lab last summer. it looks like he might have used some of the stuff that you're working on in his experiments

 

[micromachine]

give me ur skype micromachine. were drafting new soldiers

Done, never really used skype before though. Will I get an invite once you add me or will it be automatic?

 

[Cafeman]

hm thats pretty interesting. my dad is a physiologist and studies the effects of stroke under various conditions. i worked in his lab last summer. it looks like he might have used some of the stuff that you're working on in his experiments

We were mostly analysing fMRI data in conjunction with psychological experiments we'd dreamt up. A lot of it was done using Matlab and SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) - does that sound familiar? Anyhoo, I'm glad I'm out of it now!

 

[LuckyChippy]

Do Engineering/Economics/Business and take money.

 

[LuckyChippy]

Or Law/Medicine if you hate life.

 

[xdeucesx]

Ya, it was deffo a mistake choosing it.

Deciding between history of sports/U.S. Military/Witchcraft/ or International Politics


pick 2

 

[TylerN]

Spoiler

 

[Jagsti]

Hi Gays

In on page 3 btw!

Thank **** post season is over in baseball as I can now play some pokerz!

I'm prob gonna play some 50/50's this month to see if i can crush them

Me too!

 

[vanquish]

don't get a law degree unless you have a massive nutsack