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How should i approach the undergraduate short answer questions for USC (University of Southern California)?

“Describe your academic interests and how you plan to pursue them at USC.”

Ugh I hated this question!

But what you want to do is list out all your academic interests (not as part of your essay). Pick a few and elaborate with many many many many details about your interests. I can’t stress the details because they love that stuff.

and you should research usc a lot to answer the second part of the question! you should give examples of what you would do if you could pursue these interests there.

Don’t be too formal! Semi-formal is best! Narrative is good because you can really get into the stories about your interests.

Good luck with pre-law! It’s not something I would be interested in but go for it.

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American Universities?

Can you play college football (american) if you are an international postgraduate student. Because I am a student in the UK, thinking of doing a Phd in the US and American football is my favourite sport. So… can you?

Yes. You can play football as a postgrad. Though, I doubt you’ll have time with all the word required as a Phd student. And you prob. will have to walk on.

Aug 22 2008 – Coach Shuman, part 1

Where can I find practice problems and solutions for a graduate astronomy course?

I’m currently doing Interstellar Medium and Cosmology. The text of the course are Lequex for ISM and Ryden and Dodelson for Cosmo. Are there any books with practice problems and solutions? I checked the Schaum’s series, but their Astronomy book is for an undergraduate course.

References like that are certainly helpful for advanced engineering classes (I still have the one I used for my P.E. exam preparation). I am not sure what the nature of such calculations would be for the classes that you described. Those subjects do not lend themselves to a lot of individual “problem set” type homework assignments. However, I found at least the Dodelson text on Amazon. If you cannot find anything useful in the book store where you found these texts (that would be my first source) then I would go to Amazon and look through what they have on line. You can also speak to your professor. If he is a decent guy, as most of them are, he can probably give you some idea of what’s in store for the semester – calculation-wise. Good Luck.

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