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I am a genius, why would I need to keep repeating it? And it's qualifying for the graduate course in physics at the University of Cincinnati. I think I'll pass tomorrow, that's the short questions, I'm more worried about Tuesday.
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Wooo. Well, I believe I passed. Just. 15 questions, 60% is a pass, I answered 11 questions that I'm sure I'm right on, one where I may have made an approximation that they didn't want me to make, and two kinda-halfway. So even just counting the eleven I pass. But it's a small margin of error. And I'm very glad we're not being graded.
Which leaves the tough, graduate-level questions tomorrow. But I do believe I am better prepared for them. I mean, who remembers the method of images, for God's sake? But I do know how to set up a Lagrangian.
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our quals were 3 subject tests. after the first exam (math for me), i spent an hour wandering around the parking garage looking for my car before i realized that i no longer owned an '84 accord and should have been looking for my saturn. sounds like you did better.
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See you, that is the advantage of not owning a car. But it's just as well the traffic was not heavy as I walked home.
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Oh dear, oh my boots and whiskers, oh dear me. Were I a believing man, I'd set the prayer wheels to running full-time about now. I think it's just possible that I'll pass by the smallest possible margin; but it requires a bit of luck and lenient grading.
Four questions, two I answered quite well. The nasty quantum-spin addition (without a table of CG coefficients!) I waved my hands on considerably, but I think I got it approximately right. And the thermo? Nine equations in nine unknowns? There must be a simpler way to do it.
Fortunately everybody else seemed to think it was a very tough exam too, so there may be hope yet. If you call it 90% for the mechanics and electrodynamics, 50% for QM, and 10% for thermo, you get exactly 60%, the passing number. Margin for error? Not at all.
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You probably got more partial credit than you think you did. That seems to be the way it usually works out. I'll be sending some good vibrations your way.
While you're waiting for your results, perhaps you should be aware of the dangers of PQS and how to live with it, and other factors affecting motivation.
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