Originally posted by leonheartmm
^but there is a different between a levels and the american system. the cambridge university doesnt recommend you take more than 4, and each class took me over an hour and i didnt have breaks between days.
getting married early is.........well, hard to keep up with education, and it will take its toll on your body in the long run.
I am not your typical "I only know about the U.S." American. I can only assume you were referring to the UK system? I am not aware of Pakistan's system, if they even have an A-level system.
Yes, all of my classes are an hour and a half and one of my classes is 2 hours once a week. It is for a B.S. degree.
Originally posted by leonheartmm
^well lets be real, neither of us are at the level that we can completely understand the maths concerning branes and make sense of it at an intuitive level.
I agree 100% as I didn't get to dive too much into the post-grad courses (I had to do it on my own time). I found the little of quantum physics I studied easy to understand with no problems, however, I didn't get very far into it because it was on my own time. I was studying Astro Physics on my own time, since a wee laddy. Currently, I am working on a cyber security degree right now. This is, by far, much harder than anything else I've studied. I actually have to study for some of my tests and it really pisses me off. Half the people in my classes are geniuses, and I don't throw that around lightly. 😐
If you know anything about that, I'll tell you about a project I had to complete recently. I worked out 64-bits of plain text of data, by hand, through a 128-bit (lowest key size) AES encryption. BY HAND! It wasn't so much as hard as it was tedious and quite lengthy. It was harder, imo, than working out decaying orbits of planet's satellites (moons and otherwise) in complex gravity systems. (both geosynchronous and asynchronous.) Writing a program is much easier than doing it my own because humans are likely to make mistakes when XOR 'ing the matrices...bound to mix up a 0 and 1 somewhere.
Originally posted by leonheartmm
^your right about the money, but i might be moving to canada soon enough so it wud be easier to choose that path then full scholarships are too much work for me. astro physics is fun, but it can make you very aloof, or so ive experienced. srry you had to quit. sucks. but hey, you got a wife you presumealy love and two kids you presumably want, thats more than a fair trade.
Indeed, sir, on all accounts. The only way I could have pulled off the Astro-Physics post-grad degree at MIT is with a scholarship or massive student loans. I was actually going to try the scholarship but my chances were very slim that I'd win the standard academic ones. Tuition there is like, 28,000 a year or more, or something. (I heard a secret from a little bird the CIT is about as good as MIT...and the tuition is less. 😖hifty: )
Originally posted by leonheartmm
oxford doesnt offer much financial aid, and thats a problem for me. {if i ever took it up again}. MIT is darn hard to get into, the only person from my class who got in had a perfect 2400 sat score 😐 . add to that the amount of work put in to maintain your gpa and the fact that they have the highest suicide rate of any uni in america..........
Really? I thought the highest was 1600?
Originally posted by leonheartmm
anyway, its easier to complete your undergrad from an average colledge or liberal arts school and apply to ivy/MIT in post grad, its cheeper and far easier to get into.
That's exactly what I was doing, sort of. I was even considering CIT because tuition is less there and the school is very good.
My plan was to take as many transferable post-grad credits as possible and then take like the last year or so at MIT to get the Ph.D. I'm not the first person to think of that...and I think schools are putting more measures in place to curb that. (People can say, "oh, Ph.D. from Harvard, but only have taken the last year or two there.
Now, back on subject.
You studied genetics?
So, in your opinion, will the complete DNA set start to play a bigger role in legally defining an individual? This has to take into account a paradigm shift in the ethics of cloning.
(Also, I don't think your joke about Robtard's family was in good taste. That was a bit..too much. No matter how full of piss and vinegar he gets, don't go that far...it's gross. 🙁 )