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Majored in EE for undergrad, now getting MS Optics (pic related). Should I go all in for a PhD or just get that money with a job?

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I'm working on my math PhD

get the PhD

What's interesting about optics?

you mean masters or phd? Phd you usually get funding from university or the government (eg: me)

that's interesting. what are you currently working on?

majored in math & comp sci
now a math phd student

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any phd program worth its salt will actually not allow you to work while pursuing the phd degree
you will be funded, typically as a TA, but potentially as an RA, and any phd program which doesn't offer you full funding should not be under consideration (and should be ridiculed publicly)

master's programs are typically paid for out of pocket; either take out a loan or start calling your parents more often

Mathematical Statistics

Too much. I have heard some professor say even just lasers are used in a third of all scientific papers published nowadays. Might be bullshit but there are many different areas of optics so much to do.

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In my last semester of CS degree with minor in statistics, was just admitted to my school's Masters program in CS with a graduate assistantship.

If I plan to pursue a Ph. D at any point shortly after my Masters, what could I do to improve my chances of getting into a great program with some sort of funding? Other than the obvious publish during grad school and network appropriately?

What do you study?

thanks for making me feel horrible guys. Biochem in community college, average grades

currently researching Riemannian manifold optimization and monte-carlo methods for finance
I'm looking at transferring to a better phd program next year though and potentially doing fluid dynamics. not sure yet.

Can one go into optics with a degree in MechE?

statistics :(

was a math+phys major but I had some mental health issues and dropped out. Now Im going back but have to work while in school so I had to pick something less intensive.

What do you mean full funding? Tuition waived?

90% of grad schools in US waive tuition and provide a stipend. But that stipend, 90% of the time, is JUST enough to cover rent + food + books. Only the top grad schools offer more. I know a physics grad who lives out of a van here.

Yeah. Youll have to take the undergrad optics courses your first semester of grad school though.

Get cozy with a prof

>Yeah. Youll have to take the undergrad optics courses your first semester of grad school though.
Cool, my mechE program makes us take an introduction into modern physics so hopefully it can provide a background into it.

graduate student in biochem, working on kinesin motors, specifically kinesin-2

>Astronomy and Physics
>not Aerospace Engineering
why?

Chemistry, physics, and math

full funding means tuition + stipend
it should be enough for you to not need to work, but you won't have enough money to spend and live lavishly
your physics friend sounds like a retard who can't handle his finances, or like he accepted a shitty funding offer at a shitty school

then again physics isn't math so i don't know if there are any significant differences that might affect physics people that i'm not aware of
math people all live just fine on our funding

Bsc in biochemistry
Studying for masters in haematology
May specialise further down the path

The fact that this makes you feel horrible instead of motivated is more telling than the fact that youre in cc

(Im the user from rochester) you really might not even need to take any undergrad courses when you come in. If you get the normal math (diffeq+linear algebra) and physics courses (physics 2 or 3) out of the way some places will be fine without additional optics coursework. Try to get additional electives covering optics, lasers, photonics, etc from EE or physics courses if you can too.

Ucsb?

joint major physics/computer science

Mathematical Economics

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hey that is using "R" notation

cause he's not fucking gay

my nigga

EE

chemistry. Starting a PhD next year focusing on polymer synthesis hopefully

business marketing

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A general Natural Sciences degree with focuses in mathematics, computer science, and biology
I regret my entire life I wish I picked chemistry or geology as a freshman
I hate this shit I should have picked what I was good at instead of what's cool

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I want to go back to school for this.

is that just a jack of all trades degree? Never heard of it before. How do you get any depth into the subjects?

By doing a shit ton of work all for a degree that nobody will really respect because people who do nothing and flounder will get that degree and the flip side is me who has or rather, had real interdisciplinary interests

I initially started as CS until I realized I sucked assume at programming and enjoyed math/theoretical CS way more

Then I realized I wanted to look at automata theory applied to biology through a lens of abstract algebra & complexity theory

Then I realized I am complete ass at math too and have wasted years and kind of just want to die.

In highschool I was good at chemistry, history , and writing .

In the summer between highschool and college I guess I forgot all my interests and strengths and for lack of creativity picked CS and that was one of the larger mistakes of my life to be honest

Mechanical Electrical engineering, I remember I wasn't sure about this degree before getting in, but I asked in some of these threads for advice, an some user told to go for it, I wish I could thank him, I am loving it so far.

I am studying physics solely because I heard on a thread on Veeky Forums that physics majors have the highest iqs on average and I want people to think I'm smart

Bioinformatics. Dream is to analyze stem cell high-throughput data or some shit to figure out how to regenerative medicine.

If you want people to think you’re smart, then chances are you’re not particularly smart.

If he’s self aware enough to recognize it and humble enough to admit it, odds are he’s not doing so bad

>actually buying books
Also, where are you where the stipend is stretched so thin? My school isnt even that good but I get ~$27k/year as RA, about $10k to housing, $4k for food ($75/wk) and $1k for phone plan. About $12k leftover and use about $4k for fun and hobby shit

Dual Major in Math/CompSci

My majors were:
BS in Biology
MS in Zoology
PhD in Biology

zoology sounds so comfy!

tell me about it

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It was alright. I worked in a wildlife lab looking at how small mammals use space, and how that in turn affects their consumption of prey. Most of the other students in the lab dealt with game species, whether avian or mammalian. A few dealt with megafauna like cougars and bears.

holly shit that sounds nice. Is your ph.d zoology oriented?

My PhD program was geared more towards quantitative ecology. I focused on plant-insect interactions.

I'm not trying to be an asshole or anything, but shouldn't you be on /an/?

>I'm not trying to be an asshole or anything
That's the usual precursor to "but I'm going to be an asshole anyways". Nice to see you're original. And, yes, I do lurk on /an/.

Now, tell us what you do.

awesome

yea we have lots of biology anons on /an/. But just like computer science anons, sometimes talking about the discipline you like in a more scientific fashion is nice.

MechE, I wasn't telling you to go away, I was just curious about /an/ and its relationship with Biologist, since I never visit that board, gladly answered my question.

Hmmm...might want to work on your delivery, especially if it starts as it did, if you don't want people to think you are deliberately being a douche. I also think it's amusing that, despite never being on /an/, you ask if I should be on it. Again...delivery is a big part of the entire presentation and package, user. Good luck with your studies.

Thanks, hope you do well too.
And yes, giving it a second reading I realize why you would think I was being an asshole, I just didn't know the correct way of asking it in a nicer way, the only way I've been practicing English for a long time it has been through shitposting in here, so sometimes, when I try to formulate "complex" polite sentences I fear my grammar will be all fucked, so I go for the easy short way, that may sound rude.

I realized you're not a native English speaker, but you're doing a good job. So no worries, user, we're all good. Some times it's best just to ask blunt and to-the-point questions - there is less room for misinterpretation. And fuck anyone (especially Americans) that mock you for learning/practicing another language.

ok you guys are cute good job but what about grad school how many hours do you anons spend working?

Mech Engineering
I don't like it
does it get better?

I typically worked 50-60 hour weeks as a PhD student. That includes teaching responsibilities and my own research.

depends. what don't you like about it?

A gop controlled state ofc. UNC. republicans obliterated its funding. and physics dept took a huge hit from it while garbage like business school gets luxuries.
You should buy books. How else are you going to do the hmwk? I guess you could torrent ebooks but those are too hard to navigate

It might just be that the university doesn't match my disposition, it's in the middle of the city and I have very tight hours. I've come to understand that if I commit to this I'll end up with four years of study I may not like, 40k in government debt and the prospect of servile internships and bitch jobs until I reach some unrealised payoff. All of my lecturers are ESL foreigners and so are most of my peers. I feel like I am both fucking myself and being fucked

Electrical engineering and Comp Sci

I want to eventually get a theoretical computer science PhD
Should I do a masters first
What classes do I have to make sure I do

Fellow chapel hill bro?

dumbass containment and control

First year wfsc and A&M, except my grades were shit in high school so I get to go to blinn.

B.S. in math(applied) and economics. Economics is really starting to piss me off, but I only have one more course in the major so I'm just gonna finish it. I'll probably try to get a masters in systems engineering.

>it's in the middle of the city and I have very tight hours
yeah, thats a preview of coming attractions of the rat race.

>I've come to understand that if I commit to this I'll end up with four years of study I may not like

you should know by now if you like the course content.

>40k in government debt
thats pretty good. you'll have that paid off in the first 2 years of working.

>servile internships and bitch jobs

nigga, you are gonna be an engineer. even the bitch jobs are comfy and pay good.

> All of my lecturers are ESL foreigners and so are most of my peers.

its a global economy. you are going to be talking to dudes from china and -stan countries all the time. get used to it.

>I feel like I am both fucking myself and being fucked

you are just whinging. stop whinging.

Physics

I’m doing physics undergrad and want to work with quantum computers. But fuck, these “pedagogical” oriented classes are going to be th end of me.

We sit and do worksheets like in HS and it just irks me.

Bachelors of Engineering (not bachelors of science ) in Chemical Engineering. Currently working as a cad monkey in package engineering for a consumer products firm.

EE about to switch over to Applied Math.

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That's what I did. Almost done with Ph.D now.

Math and Zoology major

Nice. I really want to get my PhD in the future but am not sure how to go about it. I am thinking about just completing my school's combined BS/MS program, working a government job in Operations Research for a few years and then going back to school to get my PhD. I really like the idea of doing research full time as an applied mathematician I'm just not sure how to do it without becoming a professor (even though I would like to work in a University). I'll probably do some more research on the topic later since I know there are options.

Im a PhD candidate focusing on inorganic/organometallics. I do some electrochemical engineering work within my project as well.

Mathematics and Economics

Electrical engineering/computer engineering master race reporting in

Same, I go in biology next year, I want to apply my math to improve the world not to make money.

Materials Engineering with an economics minor

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I am a Junior in EE at the moment, but thinking of switching to Materials Science/Eng. or Optics for grad school, but really split between the two. Which one is better for employment in industry? Also, I will be able to do electives relating to either one my senior year even though my university doesn't have either major.

Forgot pic related

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Quantum Optics and optoelectronics

nothing else

any optical eng. / photonics degrees are just a derivative and shallower versions of this

Electrical Engineering and Comp Sci not sure which one I should have as my primary major (going to uni next year). I dot get to double major until I have 30 credit hours.

Are you interested in copmutation theory or how computers physically operate

Biology (Cell focus)
Chemistry (Biochem focus)
Minor: Mathematics (applied focus)

About to graduate and go to grad school!

Because fuck you if you dont have rich parents

Help!
ChemE or ElectE
I have to decide before I transfer. I plan on getting my Masters in pure maths.

Astrophysics/aerospace engineering PhD