[QUOTE=OvB;41618215]You all may be surprised to know I don't actually have any Marine Biology college under my belt yet. I've been going to community college for a few years because I've had to deal with some medical issues before I moved away to a full college. Things I wouldn't be able to financially do myself. (get my hips replaced) So I've just been kind of hanging out at home taking care of that. I'm hoping to get my way to A&M Galveston sometime in the future though.
So far my college career has been anything but normal.
[editline]27th July 2013[/editline]
I'd like to major in Marine Bio and minor in Oceanography.[/QUOTE]
I think I've always associated you with marine biology.
Like, any thread about some cool species of fish or something, I could almost always expect to see OvB with some cool insight about the subject.
Best of luck to you.
I've been studying microbiology for about 9 years, and I was even teaching it for a little while before I realized how awful teenagers are as students so I stopped that, but I'm still in love with microbiology.
I keep over 100 pages of notes on a few specific topics, such as the inner workings of nucleic acids and organelles, genetics, biochemistry, and so on in my desk as reading material. I just love knowing how the very tiny things in organisms function, why they do what they do, and so on.
I worked on a presentation about a year ago showing how mutations, natural selection, and evolution work on Earth that received a lot of positive / negative feedback. (stuff from [I]"I didn't evolve from no darn monkey!"[/I] to [I]"I had no idea that a single point-deletion mutation could fuck up an organism so much"[/I])
I also love to study physics, but my level of maths knowledge really holds me back a bit so I'm sort of stumbling through it, but I've learned so much that I can happily keep reading.
Astronomy is another topic that I'm really interested in and have been reading about quite a bit.
I have a ton of .pdf's of books that I've been reading for a while now, too -
[img]http://i.imgur.com/grvAxu2.png[/img]
In a nutshell: [B]science is neat and so are you[/B]
[QUOTE=Nikita;41611601]I absolutely love science.
But sometimes I say dumb things because I think I know more than I do.[/QUOTE]
Nikita, you're one of the few Facepuncher's that I consider are more knowledgeable than the average user. I keep linking you with physics and I think I remember you making thoughtful posts instead of the usual ones we see in science threads. You know, "FUCK YEA SCIENCE" or "MINDBLOWN" or "I don't understand shit" and so on.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;41623541]You know, "FUCK YEA SCIENCE" or "MINDBLOWN" or "I don't understand shit" and so on.[/QUOTE]
not to put too fine a point on it, but can we make this bannable in SH
Does anyone know how this professor does this? Is it just his hand or some hidden mechanism?
[video=youtube;l789l6np-qA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qA[/video]
[QUOTE=OnDemand;41626398]Does anyone know how this professor does this? Is it just his hand or some hidden mechanism?
[video=youtube;l789l6np-qA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qA[/video][/QUOTE]
Holy shit. I didn't actually realize what was so special until about a minute in.
[img]http://i.cubeupload.com/SG4G41.jpg[/img]
Holding the chalk at that angle causes a uniform bouncing.
What do you think of my exquisitely detailed hand while we're at it.
Been recently reading Ringworld.
And I thought of a question.
Is it possible for a sun to create a gigantic ring around itself? Much like the rings of Saturn. Like, in the unlikely case of all planets within that solar system got annihilated, and turned into small rocks and dust.
[QUOTE=booster;41629876]Been recently reading Ringworld.
And I thought of a question.
Is it possible for a sun to create a gigantic ring around itself? Much like the rings of Saturn. Like, in the unlikely case of all planets within that solar system got annihilated, and turned into small rocks and dust.[/QUOTE]
Well the idea of a proto-planetary disk is pretty much that a star can have rings around it just like Saturn. Sometimes portions of this disk de-stabilize and condense into planets. Sometimes they don't.
[img]http://www.hermanheyn.com/Graphics/AsteroidBelt.jpg[/img]
The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter can be called a ring because it's basically no different from the one around Saturn.
[QUOTE=OnDemand;41626398]Does anyone know how this professor does this? Is it just his hand or some hidden mechanism?
[video=youtube;l789l6np-qA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qA[/video][/QUOTE]
It's his hand. He's pressing down directly onto the chalkboard. When you do that, then pull, it skips like stones on water.
[QUOTE=Quark:;41623155]
I have a ton of .pdf's of books that I've been reading for a while now, too -
[img]http://i.imgur.com/grvAxu2.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Care to share those books? I'm really intrested in Physics and Maths.
PM me if you're interested in the books
I've been thinking of getting a masters in Chemistry after highschool, possibly a PhD and was wondering what the chances of me succeeding are
Chemistry is really, really useful for other fields of science. It's basically something you'll fall back on once in a while in almost any field and if you never study it you'll be sad when you need it. (Been there, never studied it because I hate maths)
I too hate math, but as a Chemistry major I need it. In any formal math setting I simply cannot do it, but dress the question up with any form of units and its dead simple.
The only reason why I'm not considering a chemistry major when I go to university is because of the mathematics prerequisites that the course has (they're pretty high).
I started with chemistry and when I realized how much I hated balancing chemical equations that's right when I stopped bothering with it. Switched to studying microbiology, human anatomy, and astronomy. It's only come back to bite me twice or thrice in the last ~9 years. No real regrets.
Studying physics and regretting for not picking chemistry more than the necessary classes.
Math is kinda meh, but I'm doing good.
I hope to continue studying physics after high school, but I'm also studying IT at another school at the same time, so that's another area where I could continue.
I'd prefer physics though. It's kinda funny how before high school all I could think of was studying IT, but suddenly physics started to interest me and now I'm possibly going to continue studying that instead. Used to hate physics before high school.
Off to start a Chemistry Masters (MChem) in September, exciting shit. Although I will always find Physics fascinating, Chemistry always appealed to me far more.
What are you studying?
[QUOTE=Quark:;41644928]I started with chemistry and when I realized how much I hated balancing chemical equations that's right when I stopped bothering with it. Switched to studying microbiology, human anatomy, and astronomy. It's only come back to bite me twice or thrice in the last ~9 years. No real regrets.[/QUOTE]
I always find balancing equations to be one of the most fun things to do in chemistry.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;41654098]What are you studying?[/QUOTE]
Chemistry, Physics and Biology A-levels
[QUOTE=Carlito;41657419]I always fid balancing equations to be one of the most fun things to do in chemistry.[/QUOTE]
Ah, my arch nemesis at last. How have you been?
So I'm a little worried at my upcoming semester. I took AP Calculus in high school and after taking the AB test, managed to land credit for college. But my first year I didn't take a math class and I'm somewhat worried about this next semester (start of my second year) where I'm taking Calculus II which is Integrals and the shit that comes with it. I've already learned integrals and all that jazz back in HS but I'm still a little concerned that I might not have remembered the more complex portions of derivatives, and I'm pretty much skipping that class due to the credit I got in HS. So I got credit for my Calc I in college through the AB test, and straight onto Calc II. But with the year off, not sure if it was the best idea to skip Calc I just because I can.
[QUOTE=Jeffinator;41658749]Chemistry, Physics and Biology A-levels[/QUOTE]
I meant what area are you specifically working in for your MChem?
I like Science.
What happened to the physics thread? I can't find it anywhere in GD - is the science thread replacing it?
I've got an electromagnetics assignment due on Tuesday and I'm fucking stumped. Vector calculus in three-dimensions is incredibly convoluted and confusing (diagrams are hard as fuck to draw as well, unfortunately). I need to wrap my head around this stuff, though, so... hopefully I make some progress.
SUCCESS! I MIGHT NOT BE RETARDED!
A 6.32 cm radius tip for a discharge rod on a jumbo jet seems like it might be SLIGHTLY too large to be realistic from the few pictures I've been able to find online, but fuck it... close enough!
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;41664341]I meant what area are you specifically working in for your MChem?[/QUOTE]
Ah, my bad, don't decide until my 3rd year I believe. I was thinking of going down the route of Organic Chemistry though, see where that takes me.
[QUOTE=Jeffinator;41696565]Ah, my bad, don't decide until my 3rd year I believe. I was thinking of going down the route of Organic Chemistry though, see where that takes me.[/QUOTE]
Pro tips:
Latex gloves are useless when it comes to safety. If you are working with any chemical that requires using gloves, and spill/splash anything on your gloves: remove/dispose of them immediately and wash your hands.
These are things my organic lab supervisor didn't inform us about when we were using dichloromethane for half our reactions in 2nd year :(
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