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    #32
    Killer Pigeon
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    Also, I pretty sure about 4/5 people in physics w/ ast. & s.s. last year (out of about 15), either into omnibus science, into a completely different course or out of college altogether.


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    #33
    Ruski
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    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Plus believe me, the physics dept. in UCD is a mess, you'll end up like a headless chicken.
    Now explain to me which Irish university has a better Physics department? The first years in UCD are miles ahead of 3rd years in DIT. DCU is more based around Biology or something.

    I'm not sure about Maynooth or Trinity. You can fill me in on those.


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    #34
    AkiThePirate
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    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Also, I pretty sure about 4/5 people in physics w/ ast. & s.s. last year (out of about 15), either into omnibus science, into a completely different course or out of college altogether.
    Do you have any way of showing that this actually happened?


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    #35
    Killer Pigeon
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    Ruski wrote: »
    Now explain to me which Irish university has a better Physics department? The first years in UCD are miles ahead of 3rd years in DIT. DCU is more based around Biology or something.

    I'm not sure about Maynooth or Trinity. You can fill me in on those.

    Well if there's no better than UCD for physics then Ireland must be sh*te for physics. One Romanian Ph.D. in UCD said that Ireland's physics facilities are crap compared to what he's seen and he went to college in Romania, a supposedly backward country to some. I wouldn't blame him for a comment like that to be honest. I wasn't very happy at all with the way the 2nd year physics labs were organised - they were all over the place. Most of the equipment hadn't been updated since the early 90's (a lot of the PC's were using Windows 3.0 or lower and there was always a problem with them), the printers never worked and there was literally a fault in all the equipment I was using. Not that I lost marks or anything because of that, it wasn't after all my fault but it kinda hinders how much you actually can take from the labs. Furthermore, another Ph.D. who's in his final year said that when he was in 2nd year (of he's undergrad) he was using the exact same lab manual - basically when I doing the Junior Cert, so they hadn't undated the labs at all.

    Apart from the labs I find many of the physics lecturers (except a small handful) totally incoherent - just my opinion. And don't get me started on maths lecturers - one lecturer this year in particular for a certain 2nd year linear algebra course, I felt like shooting myself.
    AkiThePirate wrote: »
    Do you have any way of showing that this actually happened?

    I don't believe the interwebs provide such a statistic, wouldn't be surprised though - I imagine it wouldn't be too much of a plus for UCD if they published their drop out rates online.


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    #36
    Conor108
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    Are you in 3rd year of Astro KillerPigeon?


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    #37
    Killer Pigeon
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    Conor108 wrote: »
    Are you in 3rd year of Asto KillerPigeon?

    No. I'm in 2nd year, used to be in Astro but found it boring so I'm doing just plain physics now.


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    #38
    Ruski
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    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    One Romanian Ph.D. in UCD said that Ireland's physics facilities are crap compared to what he's seen and he went to college in Romania, a supposedly backward country to some..
    Universities and institutes are divided by specialisation. A Russian university, for example, wouldn't have a faculty for physics of maths. There would be an institute specifically for topics in maths or physics. My folks went to college in Moscow, and it was an institute which was specifically for aviation engineering. Obviously Eastern European colleges would have better facilities since they're catered specifically for institute specialisation.


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    #39
    Killer Pigeon
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    Ruski wrote: »
    Universities and institutes are divided by specialisation. A Russian university, for example, wouldn't have a faculty for physics of maths. There would be an institute specifically for topics in maths or physics. My folks went to college in Moscow, and it was an institute which was specifically for aviation engineering. Obviously Eastern European colleges would have better facilities since they're catered specifically for institute specialisation.

    Well this guy went to the Uni. of Bucharest which (after doing a quick google search, is broken up into faculties (like UCD) not separate institutions. Also there are various Western European institutions who specialise in only one or two subjects - like the London School of Economics & Pol. Sci. for instance.


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