Recent content by Spandia

I'm about to finish my first semester of college, and due to complicated reasons, am now not receiving financial aid. This means that the school will probably slam me with a 20,000 bill in two weeks, and that I probably won't return in the spring. I'm trying to consider all my options here...

Thank you, everyone

And I guess I really should start physics. I love the feeling of writing, and I love English, but I'm not sure I'm ready to be pigeonholed into that field just yet. Partly because I feel like there are more reliable sources of income in physics (though I am in no way looking to get rich) And I...

Ahhhh, thank you, I hadn't even thought of writing groups.

So I scheduled classes for my first year of college which begins this fall last week but found myself with a little problem. Each freshman has to take a "frontiers" course, a seminar type course designed for freshman. The one I had selected was about screenwriting, the problem being it's...

Should I take a concentration with my physics major? What are the benefits? I'm interested in astrophysics, should I take a materials science or astronomy concentration?

I guess the best thing would be to have fun with it then.

Thank you for the advice, but perhaps my phrasing was off. I love languages, all of them, and that's what makes it so hard to choose :(

I took some spanish about 5 years ago, hated it >.<

I'm a physics student and need to get my foreign language proficiency requirement out of the way. I have been considering French, Russian, or German, but just cannot decide. French and Russian strike me as beautiful when spoken and all three languages have rich histories. Which of these three...