Heard on the street (11th ed)

[KrazyHorse]

I think he means, why are you burning your bridges?

It's not like I'm poisoning my relationships. But after I tell him this I will go on fast track to graduation and he won't be as concerned with development as a physicist.

[Jon Miller]

So you wouldn't stay in even if you thought there was huge developement to do ala the 50s/60s/70s?

JM

[KrazyHorse]

No. **** physics. I'll read about it. Let other people do it.

[Naked Gents Rut]

No. **** physics. I'll read about it. Let other people do it.

[Jon Miller]

I have a t-shirt that says **** physics

I have talked to my advisor about getting jobs outside of physics, but I am not certain about doing that yet. I am inclined to do some lower energy physics for a post doc so I can go on to applied physics stuff easier.

JM

[TCO]

I think consulting is way harder than I banker quant stuff. Not the math, but the figuring out how to make simplifying assumptions (which are acceptible, which not)...how to adapt and overcome when data not there, how to scope problems, how to get buy in, etc. etc. etc. It's really richer in a sense.

[KrazyHorse]

They pay less and make you travel more AFAIK (this last is an important consideration for those of us who are married).

[TCO]

You should have done solid state...it's where the real men are. Real knuckle crunchers. Buncha cave men beating on rocks...as the organickers complain. Damn boys club as all the femmes said.

Ooops...that was chemistry. But same diff. Solid stake physics ezperimentalists all have a biug huge red tool box on wehllees. and do unathorusie drilling into the foundation and creating new crawl spaces...or making unauthorized electrical connections to main power. You just gotta fukking love that.

[KrazyHorse]

The average time to graduation for a solid-state experimentalist in our department is 7.3 years.

I am not ****ting you.

They are also as dumb as bricks from having sat through classes with them.

[TCO]

AVerage time for a solid state chemist at NU is ~ 4.5. (I was first of all in total chemist group at 3.9 and I literally was told I could leave in 2.5...but I picked a simple project guaranteed to give interesting, easy results.)

[TCO]

The average time to graduation for a solid-state experimentalist in our department is 7.3 years.

I am not ****ting you.

They are also as dumb as bricks from having sat through classes with them.

They are smarter than chemists though. They know all those Bessel functions and all.

[KrazyHorse]

No they don't. Theorists know Bessel functions.

Experimentalists know how to use screwdrivers.

[KrazyHorse]

I am absolutely ****ing certain that time to graduation has increased radically over the last 20 years.

I think that it has to do with more competitive job market.

**** them and **** their ****ing long-ass grad school.

Nobody has graduated in under 5 from our department in ~6 years.

[TCO]

[QUOTE=KrazyHorse;5560348]I am absolutely ****ing certain that time to graduation has increased radically over the last 20 years.

I think that it has to do with more competitive job market.

**** them and **** their ****ing long-ass grad school.

Nobody has graduated in under 5 from our department in ~6 years.[/QUOTE

I thought grad school was a huge goof off. Had reserve money coming in...a little savings...a little better stipend from outside scholarship. I mean...I always had money to go drink and such. It was no different than USN or consulting...other than less respect. And less work.

[TCO]

No they don't. Theorists know Bessel functions.

Experimentalists know how to use screwdrivers.

But they are smarter than chemists. They can get all hoity toity on us. They even ***** slap the EEs every now and then.