Physics Gradschool: Expectation vs. Reality
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2020
- A skit on what you might expect gradschool to be like, vs. what it's actually like.
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General-er relativity.
That's the best one.
I specialise in Generalising General-er relativity.
It’s just General Relativity with extra steps.
@@gedaliakoehler6992 Ooh-la-laa, someone’s gonna get laid in college
That had me laughing, hard.
It's relatively general.
Have you eaten the pile of dust already that I left for you on the basement floor?
@Shivanshu Siyanwal No no no, Jens lives in Andrew's attic!
LOL WHAT?!
I hope he has, he needs his nourishment for the meme battles
I'm saving it.
@Shivanshu Siyanwal He could make the argument that math is more foundational than physics, that way @Flammable Maths would be eating dust instead ;)
In once sense, it’s kinda nice to see that lab reports are as annoying to mark as they are to write lmao
Why
"Never before have I been so offended with something I one hundred percent agree with"
-James Acaster
As a former TA, the lab grading one hit me hard.
Then you realize over half of the kids in that lower level class are on the pre med track
Lab grading leaves you scars!
Grading is almost as bad as it was to have to do them.
Grading in general is so painful.
And the administration gets pissed if you give them the grade they actually deserve
I taught a grad course last semester and had the book open in front of me while I lectured from it
Extra points if it was a textbook written by you
Worst kind of Professor
@@SauceGodGaming true
@@SauceGodGaming Actually it's far better this way. Because if the professor does not record what he is covering in the lecture it is a nightmare.
"It speeds up with constant position...Best one so far" God I FEEL this right now. Grading shit is honestly cringe inducing sometimes.
Agreed. Most of my time as a TA was spent with me trying to figure out what was written in the homeworks
What are the odds I stumble upon this comment at the exact moment he starts saying these words 😭😭
@@omaribrahim6461 Me tooo😱 what's going on
@@shark777538 After the 3rd hour of writing that report, with linear algebra, calc 2, chemistry problems, a statics quiz at 8 in the morning. I'm usually happy with it being readable
grading in linear algebra was like "as we proved in class" meanwhile i have no fucking idea what they proved in class
Need more of the funny course names! “Piezo healing crystals 643” lmao
2:40 "That's the best one so far.."
_cries in TA_
You missed the coding part.
Expectations: "oh yeah I see what I did wrong, correct this ... and it works yeah"
Reality: "F*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck..... I should've gone into industry"
I'd imagine industry coding is exactly the same--only you're using LISP and the person that wrote the library didn't doc anything and he died in 2013 and there's no budget to rewrite until it breaks
@@duncanw9901 Lmao
1:49 "What does progress mean?"
Hey Vsauce, Andrew here! 😂
"And how much does it weigh O.O"
@@AndrewDotsonvideos a total of you didnt make any grams
According to Wikipedia, the mass of Progress is 350 kg. Since it's attached to the ISS, it is weightless, so it weighs 0 Newton.
@@grieske no, it is still close enough to the earth to have weight just smaller than that on the surface
@@edwincheng321 its in free fall which is why it has no weight
*smoothly transitions into sponsorship*
You're not really on the phone, are you?
its the reality ;)
You should see Oversimplified
"in the limit of WTF --> 0" i can only dream of achieving such an ideal scenario
Work*Tension*Force
@@anvayaiyer5614 might as well be called what the f*** limit....
"I found many examples of what the solution isn't" my answer whenever I take an exam and the professor comes by asking how's it going
I'm literally studying for my grad condensed matter exam right now and his notes are the book word for word but more shit
How did you do on your exam?
*When you're in your last year of undergrad and watching Andrew to mentally prep for grad school*
Exactly
Maybe my undergrad just didnt go well but this is actually scaring me for grad school 😅
2:21 it's amazing how the students come up with such 'creative' answers
professor: I don't care for Jackson's tendency to just brute force a solution to a problem instead of using more elegant solving methods
expectation: so here is an updated method of solving this problem that uses new techniques developed since then that makes things so much easier and more intuitive
reality: so let me pull out this book from the 20s that solves EM using just geometry and handwaving techniques.
This is extremely funny, they keep getting better
thanks!
Lol’d at the reality lab report. “That was the best one yet”.
The Lectures and Homework sections resonated with me. I learn almost nothing from my professors mundane lectures, in a class of two mind you, and the homework is unreasonably difficult requiring assumptions and concepts that are not at all obvious to a first time learner, which my professor knows full well but shows absolutely no mercy. The only thing keeping me going is applying for cool internships after this semester.
Can't speak to what things are like at the graduate level, but yeah, I feel like professors too often assign problems aimed at someone who might already have an understanding of the material rather than reinforcing what is being learned currently. Is it too much to ask for a problem set that starts off simple and gradually increases in difficulty so you learn by doing and leave those more complicated problems toward the end or as bonus questions? I feel like hopping back and forth between a complicated problem and endless google searches is far from the best way to internalize information, if anything you are teaching yourself it is not worth remembering because it exists online.
What course is this?
@@Duhluzr21 For me I am just referring to Calc 1 & 2. Which conceptually I think is super easy, but not when I am asked to prove that the universe is a projection lol
Grad School Expectation - I'm going to actually apply myself this time, not BS my way through like I did as an immature Undergrad, I've grown up now
Reality - Watching youtube videos at 1am while procrastinating on my work and BSing at the last min
2:21: "it speeds up with constant POSITION, but not exactly because gravity isn't really 9.81, but 9.81 + otherstuff, and that's the uncertainty"
THAT'S THE BEST ONE SO FAR!
What is this reference to?
@@MariaSanchez-qv9qk I'm not a physicist and I suck at explaining things but acceleration is the derivative of VELOCITY, not position. And it's common to try to calculate gravity (9.81 m/s^2) through experiment in a physics course.
@@mimithehotdog7836 just do 9.8 instead, 9.81 is an approximation
When the lecturer cries because he’s redundant. I felt that.
Hey Andrew you are my inspiration. I want to become a theoretical physicist when I grow up just like you.
:)
Huh I remember you from a stream some time back.
But sadly u will give jee instead of kvpy
@@nishatiwari9212 why not both :p
@@sahilshah4141 Yeah give both and don't restrict yourself to India man
Oh my god the grading one. I never thought I would see something so true.
The applause 👏 was funny. Your beard looks great! ~ Mom 💕
Thanks mom🙌🏻
Wow. Andrew's Mom! Hi 👋
@@aswathik1595 Hi 👋 back!
Oh my god, this is so cute!
Wholesome
"Noo I don't have time for solutions *laughs* but you can see for yourself if your answer makes sense" REALLY hitting home with that one haha
@1:55 Thomas Edison would be proud of that answer. 😂😂
1:54 I am laughing way too hard. This is how my dissertation is going.
That lab report/hw hits too close to home. What most students don't understand is nobody wants to grade them, so if you do a really good job in the beginning, the TA's (us) will assume you're a good student and will give you the benefit of the doubt.
The grading lab reports bit got me. I was grading my electricity and magnetism lab reports today and I had to just stop after the first one as I lost 100 IQ points immediately. The worst is when they submit a 30 page report of just images of their scratch work. Grading is definitely the worst part of being a grad student besides the never actually progressing in your research
If it makes you physics people feel better, my biochem professor told our class to study whatever we feel like because the tests won't be specifics. However, he proceeded to ask the most detailed mechanistic questions I have ever seen.
It's kind of cool in some way. Like you don't have any specific syllabus to "complete" as such. Everyone else are equally clueless as you. Idk sometimes that makes us feel better 😅
As an organic chemist looking at undergrads draw pentavalent carbons, you sometimes just wonder:”why are we even bothering?”
Lololol, carbons with 5 bonds x)
The most painful part of it all is when you get so many piled up things from the courses you're taking that you just kinda conveniently forget about your research, until your advisor reminds you about it
I'm a grad student in statistics, having a hellish time with research these days and this made my day. So sad, but so true (especially grading undergraduate work). Thanks!
3:08 This was my entire class in thermo when our professor casually introduced the surface area of a 6-dimensional hypersphere (I'm not in grad school, but with each passing day my desire to go to grad school for physics decreases)
"I found many examples of what the solution isn't which is you ask me is just as important and work funding"
I felt that on a deep level
Every time I have doubts about going to grad school (for molecular biology/oncology) you boost my spirits and inspire me!🙂
u got dis!
Expectation:I will go to my college's campus
Reality:It is 2020 guys
Replying to student emails
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Student: "Dear Professor, ..."
Me: "Please stop calling me professor"
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Student email sent on Friday afternoon: "I miss my recitation on Tuesday because I thought it was Monday"
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Love the videos, keep it up
Me: "again?"
Man I love great courses plus thanks again Andrew!
heck yeah
“The limit of wonky space as WTF approaches 0 is curved space.” As a physics major, and a math minor. I absolutely loved this.
This had me laughing so hard I kept having to rewind it. As for the grading, I once had a professor tell me that I'd graded an exam too easy and had to lower the grades. I felt so bad for the students - one lost I think 60 points - and I just had to tell them that I had been ordered to lower their grades. The guy was the department chair at the time.
"Yeah I guess that makes sense" hits so close to home
Papa Andrew really provides a good perspective into the life of a physics major, which kinda helps aspiring students to get the right idea and not get demotivated while not knowing anything about college courses..
Plus, this channel has the right mix of humour and info
So, Kudos man
The one where someone asks about your "progress" hit me. What you said is basically my answer every time lol
Btw, it's well established that the WTF term goes to _infinity_ ! Letting it go to zero is intractable for most people.
3:06 to 3:38 lolllllllllllllllllllllllll got me there
edit: INSANE MECHANICS LMFAOOO
Ok I'm sorry but the sketch at 1:30 is pure unadulterated genius. You made my week. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Omg,yesterday i was sleep at 4:00 for my physic homework, and that video hit me hard
"I guess that makes sense"
so relatable
I was never a math or physics person. But these videos make it seem more relatable and drive a desire to learn more about those topics. Also, super funny! Keep it up!!!!
"You're kidding...right?" that one got me lmao
For the lab grading...Shout out to the one student who once calculated gravity as 24m/s/s. That was a new one.
I get densities approaching a black hole for mundane compounds. My husband got calculated rocket velocities of a billion miles per hour as a TA. lol
That one where the prof is teaching word to word
Hit me hard
I am an undergrad, and I am kinda disappointed to how Physics is being taught....
I was expecting having thought experiments in every lecture
And stuff that actually builds up physics
Nope it's just read books,solve problems
Do everything yourself....
Atleast we have lectures on youtube,
Like your videos, Veritasium, PBS spacetime
Still, I was expecting more when I took Physics in a uni
Might have to repeat in a different uni😐
University of Colorado does this. Most of lecture was clicker questions (you have a remote with buttons labeled A-E to answer with) that were very conceptual. There was often a demonstration before or after the question and then the question was answered and explained after.
@@Virtuous_Rogue I live in India
Am I even eligible for admission in University of Colorado?
I guess it doesn't hurt to try and apply
@@hiccup3.14 I think so. There are a lot of Indians in the engineering graduate school.
Probably undergrad too. I just happened to work with 3 Indians that were all in an engineering grad program.
@@Virtuous_Rogue Well, I am not into Engineering
But I'll try for Physics course nonethless
Thanks bro
Just took a break from my General Relativity lecture recording and this is exactly what I needed!
An Andrew Dotson physics class sketch is the best thing to happen to me this week. That's good and bad commentary Andrew.
"..generalize general relativity." :D I'm ded.
“But mom! Getting C’s technically means I passing the class!”
Great video andrew
My best wishes are always with you
They keep getting better.. legend
The sponser spot was awesome! Caught me off guard!
Sir, you are one of my most favorite youtuber. Just awesome, laughed a lot. Thank you
These skits are the best!! Kudos!
Mad respect on that Corsair case. One of my all time favorite PC cases
you are the best one in youtube Andrew for PhD students who need a little rest between their heavy stuffs ti be done! thank you
that comparison between the expectation and reality was so funny and good. especially the first one ''lectures expectation and reality'' was so funny...
Thanks for putting efforts in making this video. All the best for studies.
From what I’ve gathered from various sources, grad school is:
40% searching for free food at seminars
30% being ignored by your advisor
20% being emotionally abused by your advisor
10% reading papers written by people smarter than you
One of your best skits yet!
Thanks!
I'm a second year grad student and this basically nailed it.
Seemless ad placement, as always
I can't express how much joy these give me when I'm recovering from whole day of pretending to do my qm homework
When Andrew gets his PhD, can we expect a new and more efficient line of healing crystals?
These videos have gotten really good. Really funny man keep it up
Super video Dotson
Words cannot explain how accurate this is
Just few more years for "Making lectures: expectations vs reality"
1:33 hurts on a different level though...
1:05 "yeah, I guess that makes sense"
WHY IS THIS ME
Another hilarious video, keep them coming!
I'm still an undergrad dreaming about getting to grad school but this made me laugh a lot. I hope I relate to them (more)
one day...
Having flashbacks to Jackson's ED... "we'll leave this (the literal math and explanation!) for the reader (the lost student) to do."
Lol, I loved that segue to the commercial for Great Courses Plus :) Very clever ^_^
Dude these are spot on! Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
This is universal!😂
I am from India, and it's ditto, the same.
that segway was and still is one of the greatest ive seen
Loved the piezo healing crystals on the whiteboard @ 2:45
Love what your doing. Amazing transition into the ad that was smooth 👌🏼
1:48
That one made me laugh so much. Idk why UA-cam recommended your channel to me but I'm so glad that it did
i love this guy so much
i guess that makes sense , summarizes every physicist/mathematician attempts at the universe.
I read the title as “Gradeschool” which actually made this a lot more impressive
My favorite is the proffesors who ask question they themselves can't solve. Or ask for a paper on a subject and when you ask them for clarification on the subject matter they reveal they have zero background with it.
Started with my Grade School today itself.
All of the expectations posted here are things that I am ACTUALLY expecting.
Pls wish me luck, pls.
That marking lab reports part is sooooooooo true, procrastinating that right now
The award for ALL of the best segways goes to thee Andrew Dobson. Physics is lucky to have you dude.
“Hi!” *cute chuckle*
The research part is so true in the beginning, so accurate
That was a good transition to your sponsor time. Well done