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So what was the final grade - did whoever did the grading just look at the pictures? did he quit and go into CS, is he on HN? Did he make any other discoveries regarding the assiness of other fields of human endeavor as the years went by?
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As is Mathematics.
Exactly my experience back in the days doing the mandatory "advanced experimental physics laboratory semester" where you had to do like 14 vastly different experiment of the caliber described in that post in the course of one semester on old equipment that would break during the experiment, with less than motivated PhD students or post grads as teachers. Of the 14 experiments only two worked and we got the expected r…
My one remaining did-not-graduate nightmare is that I never completed that course. And I was an experimentalist.
> This experience drove me right into theoretical physics
Had a summer student work on my nearly-intractable dissertation experiment. He immediately switched to theory.
You sure it isn’t Schottky diodes formed by the metallic contacts that are interfering with the measurement of the bulk germanium properties? I’d sputter deposit metallic contact regions and solder to those, then maybe compare two different thickness samples and look at the difference in resistivity vs. temperature, essentially de-embedding your fixture.
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Yeah I don't quite understand how the physics curriculum is set. There is more and more physics discovered over time and yet the time you get to study remains the same. 4 years is not enough time to learn the math and physics you need to do anything real, not counting the other important stuff you need to do (like English comp and partying and getting your heart broken).
Heh this strikes me as funny. I remember studying hierarchical image classifiers... If you think physics changes fast you should check out CS sometime.
I guess this must be from '99. Consequently the author went to get his Masters and PhD in CS.[0] Having gone through a similar ordeal and frustration at the end of my uni career, in the end I went out with the highest admiration for the experimentalists and their tech staff. [0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html