有没有拿到temple university 的physics的offer的？

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有一个物理的！！temple目测很坑啊。。。没申。。。

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teenmixtmy 发表于 2013-3-24 11:01
有一个物理的！！temple目测很坑啊。。。没申。。。

俄，为啥坑啊？

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512909842 发表于 2013-3-24 22:13
俄，为啥坑啊？

看人家网页，听一个人讲过。。然后就是坑。。。

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teenmixtmy 发表于 2013-3-25 14:20
看人家网页，听一个人讲过。。然后就是坑。。。

是那的学术氛围太差了么？

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512909842 发表于 2013-3-25 15:23
是那的学术氛围太差了么？

额、、、我也不太清楚。。不说了 省得坑人。。。

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teenmixtmy 发表于 2013-3-25 16:26
额、、、我也不太清楚。。不说了 省得坑人。。。

说出来是不坑人

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Hi Olivia Lei:

Sorry for this abrupt email. I`m a Chinese undergraduate student from DaLian University of Technology. From your name and head portrait I guess you are from China, but I`d better use English to write to you.

As a junior student majoring in physics, I have great interest in surface and films physics. I really want to know what`s your everyday work in the Xiaoxing Xi`s research group. And can you introduce some of your undergraduate research experience and applying experience to me?

Thank you very much!




Sincerely,


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Hi,

Do you mean graduate research in my group? I suppose that you want to apply for Temple graduate school.
Basically we grow superconductor and oxides thin films and measure transport property, AFM, XRD to tell the film quality, surface and structure. We have three major projects: MgB2 superconductor films, MgB2 circuits and oxide thin films. The methods we use are CVD (chemical vapor deposition) and PLD (pulsed laser deposition). We have pictures of our equipments and publication list on our website that you can look through.

Olivia


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Olivia Lei

Department of Physics
Temple University

Cell. (215)-437-2273

Graduate Student
Xiaoxing Xi's group


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Hi, Olivia,

Thanks for your introduction. In my view, you are doing experiment physics, right? But I`ve heard from my professors that generally no physics research group could do a exclusive experiment research, or in other words, the analysis of the data grained from the experiment is necessary or even more important. To what extent do you do things on theoritical  work? Just analysis the data to draw a conclusion about the phenomenon and explain it just qualitatively?

Maybe I haven`t express my question well. As a undergraduate student, I`m not sure about what quality I need to apply to Physics department of Temple University. Which one of research experience, Toefl, GRE or GPA takes the most important place? Also, I have great interest in your undergraduate achievements and your applying experience so I can find out in what aspect should I pay more effort to to enrich myself. Thanks for your sharing. But if you think these information is so private to share, thanks all the same.

Sincerely,


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Hi,

I have one question, just out of curiosity. If you are going to apply, is it going to be next year?

Toefl, GRE, GPA  are equally important in applications to most of the U.S. universities. I did first principle calculation in undergraduate school, which is not very relevant to my current work. Your English is fine to me, based on the email. Your university has a relatively good reputation in our group because we had a post doc graduated from your university. I don't know much about the standard of our department and it varies from year to year. You'll never know the result unless you try application.


Olivia

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Hi Olivia,

Yes, I`m going to apply for 2013 autumn term.

It seems that first principle calculation is quite profound. Did you apply for PhD when you planning to study in Temple University? Do professors concern more about your research ability when they want offering a PhD degree? And what extent do you think a undergraduate student should achieve to apply for a further study in U.S.(I think it is a little harsh for undergraduate to publish paper or letter.)?

To be honest, I haven`t heard about Temple University before. I click into the Xiaoxing Xi`s group`s website through Penn State University. What`s the relationship between these two university? As far as I can see on the internet, I find Temple University is not a university special in science or technology. What`s you idea about studying physics in such a university?(I`m not saying Temple University is not good.)

Forgive my curiosity, are you Chinese? If you are, I think I have a lot of detail-concerned question to ask you.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Bests,


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Dr. Xi moved from penn state to temple. No relationship between them. I am Chinese, will be out of campus this week.

Sent from my iPhone

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Olivia,

Thanks. I would think about my confusion this week and write to you next Monday.
Thanks again!

Sincerely,


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我就是觉得吧，现在套瓷太早了。。。。太早了。。。。明年我不一定在这儿了。

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是么？你当时套了没？你那时候申的是MS还是PhD？。。。还有 怎么想到庙大了。。。是不是中国的教授多少更愿意接受中国学生啊。。。那 明年去哪啊？。。
中文真好。。。。

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没套。我算是认识老板吧，就来了。phd的.temple 不算好，有少数几个好老板，xi算是。中国老板没有特别喜欢中国学生，稍微好一点而已，中国学生多了对他组里面平衡不好

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那看来你是北大的喽。。膜拜。。还有，费城那里怎么样啊，听说费城治安不好啊。。对咱们有影响么？明年去哪啊。。我听说过一个学长本来申的学校不太好，后来老板被伯克利挖走了他就跟着去了。。对了，还有，老板们看GPA的时候是怎么看的，会重点关注几门课程么？我量子力学和电动力学考得不好。。

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我科大的，组里有个北大的。其余都是外国人，来了几个新的，过一阵我更新网页你就看得见。治安不好，美国平均水平。平时注意，就没有大问题。老板看gpa没有统一标准。招生主要是系里一个老头burkhardt在管。我没问过他的标准所以不知道。今年有可能，有可能有个中国女生毁约。要是的话，明年可能会难一些。想转学的人有，真正转的没有几个，最好看好了。我明年可能交换，说不一定。










4月份跟一个Temple的师姐的邮件。紫色的是师姐回的。。当时比较年轻，问题比较傻帽，轻喷。。。
从她跟我说的情况我感觉Temple也就是一个很一般很一般的学校。。。所以，我觉得可能的话还是不要去，虽说那块儿好学校多，蹭一蹭合作什么的有可能但是应该不是那么容易。。