attendance? are they treating college like gradeschool now?

>>16948027
Engineering colleges are often like this, yeah. The other two unis i went to were "normal" and didn't require attendance, but I think the one I'm going to does.

>>16948027
I think that's mostly an american thing.

>>16948024
Beware Witten's "because I said so" axiom.

Is that Beabadoobee

>>16948027
Been that way for a while. I went in 2013 and you’d fail automatically if you didn’t show up often enough. Didn’t matter what you knew or not.

>>16948041
That is what is scaring me the most - even though I have my qualms with maths (hence why I don't wanna do it my entire life), it still made me a mathematician in how I think and how rigorous I am. The culture shock could be hard (and might push me into mathematical physics but there are no opportunities there...)

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>>16948073
Yes.

>>16948492
What do left handed people do in a class with those desks?

>>16948027
they're making me take fucking standardized tests in my upper division classses

>>16948035
Had it on some classes in Greece on Computer Science. Mainly a couple of classes that were lectured by some insecure middle aged "professor" teaching some shite like EU regulations or how to make new company, if he didn't have attendance nobody would bother appearing on his class.

>>16948114
Theres some more rigorous books out there you can study alongside if you want, like just look up <field> for mathematicians. But honestly if you got a good understanding of manifolds and measure theory and put "smooth (almost everywhere)" in some places you can probably fill in the hand wavy gaps yourself without too much trouble.

>>16948024
Stick to math. Modern physics is fundamentally broken. Almost everything Einstein published is provably incorrect. We haven't made any progress since Newton, and even his classical physics findings were mostly incorrect (his second law is the only law that holds).

>>16949564
Dumbass b/w take. Not having a 100% accurate theory isnt no progress, we have models that can still predict most stuff incredibly well now, and so so many more tools to work with them more easily.

so wait...
if time dilation is real and a stationary object moves fastest through time, wouldnt you be able to measure when an object is going fastest through time to establish that its stationary and then establish objective velocity?

>>16949564
>Almost everything Einstein published is provably incorrect
other way around, everything qft and on is nonsense, including the standard model

>>16949564
>Almost everything Einstein published is provably incorrect.
Finally a 300 iq take on Sci

it's to protect the ego of shitty lecturers who'd otherwise end up with an empty hall

>>16948970
They usually have 1 or 2 special snowflake for lefties desk somewhere in the room, you could also just have your arm elevated. Everyday I am thankful I was not born wrong-handed.

>>16949411
Yeah I ordered some mathematicians books, like Charge, Flux, and Metric, should help.
I did topology and diff. geometry. Guess it was a good idea.
>>16949564
Pure maths doesn't have much opportunities thoughever

Im also starting a MSc in physics. I am currently planning my degree. They allow 30 ECTS undergrad credits which I probably need. Here is my current degree plan.

Undergraduate courses
Astrophysics 7.5 ECTS
Solid state physics 7.5 ECTS
Computational Physics I 7.5 ECTS
Electromagnetic field theory 7.5 ECTS

Core classes
Quantum Mechanics II 7.5 ECTS
Mathematical methods in physics 7.5 ECTS
Statistical Physics I 7.5 ECTS
Classical electrodynamics 7.5 ECTS

Specialization:
Into to Quantum computation 15 ECTS
Computational Physics II 7.5 ECTS
Representation theory for finite groups 7.5 ECTS

Master thesis 30 ECTS

Opinions? Is it too basic?

>>16950765
I wouldn't take 30cr of undergraduate courses ngl myself.
And that's without any background in physics but like undergraduate courses suck ass and won't teach anything is my feeling.
Plan is like
Quantum Mechanics 7.5
Experimental stuff 7.5
Statistical Physics 7.5
Spectroscopy 7.5

Biophysics 7.5
Condensed matter physics 7.5 (hesitating with physics of materials here a lot)
Applied optical spectroscopy 7.5
Physics and applications of electromagnetic fields and optical materials 7.5

And probs some biochemistry stuff if I can especially during Q3 like biophysical chemistry

>>16950777
Cool. Me personally, I am not interested in experimental stuff. I am doing my studies online with Linneaus University. I have PhD in non-commutative algebra from my previous studies. Even then they want me to take undergrad courses.

>>16950931
I really wanna do experimental stuff actually as I have a heavy background in CS/Numerical Analysis and don't wanna double down on that + kinda hate spending all my time finding random bugs in code
Oh I'm gonna be studying in Sweden too lmao. Göteborg. No PhD however and they haven't told me anything about having to take undergraduate courses lol so I won't probably? Gonna study this summer a lot.
I am looking a lot at vacancies that interest me and it seems spectroscopy is like a huge boon for so many of them.

>>16950943
Experimental stuff is probably a safer bet with AI stealing jobs.

>>16952571
Yeah there's also this.
Computational in particular feels quite dangerous. I expect high energy physics won't be as affected (not that there's many jobs anyhow) but yeah, better be in a lab.

>>16952571
>muh ai
KYS you faggot.

>>16952643
Learn 2 weld.

Is astronomy that much more saturated?

>>16950383
this
I've seen them have melties over it lol

>>16948035
it's a thing in Brazil