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Juliet Started conversation Mar 31, 2001
such youth - and such disillusionment already! I figured you for 56 at least!! 
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Hooloovoo Posted Mar 31, 2001
Well I really dont know how to take that.......
Disillusionment? I speak the truth and nothing more
Hooloovoo
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Hooloovoo Posted Mar 31, 2001
You'll be pleased to know that you're the highest so far, other than my mate. But he's a bloke so he doesnt count! LOL
Hooloovoo
I could've gotten higher
Hooloovoo Posted Mar 31, 2001
Well you could have:
a) lied
b) looked at the javascript and picked all the best answers.
However, since even when *I* take it I only get 84%, if you'd have gotten higher than that I'd have been a bit suspicious. And before you say it, no I dont appear to know what I want. 
I've changed a little since I wrote the questionnaire, should get around to updating the answers really.....
Hooloovoo.
I could've gotten higher
Hooloovoo Posted Mar 31, 2001
I was a bit concerned about putting a link to my homepage on H2G2, but I think I'll leave it on there...
Hopefully you'll be the first of many fine women looking at my page and realising just what a great and fantastic guy I am Also hopefully some of them will live near me......
Hooloovoo
like myself
Xanatic Posted Mar 31, 2001
How can you already be heading for a phd? I´m 20 years old and I´m only just trying to get into astrophysics at uni. And frankly the idea that I´ll be old and grey when I get my phd is kind of discouraging.
like myself
Juliet Posted Mar 31, 2001
yes - but I'm certainly a fine woman.
Anyway - I always went for older men... perhaps it's time for a change???
like myself
Hooloovoo Posted Mar 31, 2001
To: Xanatic
Well I started uni when I was 19 after finishing my A-Levels. I've done a four year masters degree "Physics with Astrophysics M.Sci (Hons)" making me 22 now. From there its straight into a PhD, or more likely I'll have to do an M.Sc for one year first since I'm only getting a 2(ii). If all goes to plan I should be a doctor of physics by the time I'm 25 / 26.
To: Juliet
Well to be honest, I've always had a thing for women older than myself. I find they are so much more ---- than girls my age. I'll replace the "----" when I've thought how to describe it....
Hooloovoo
like myself
Xanatic Posted Apr 2, 2001
Well, I was 19 when got out of high-school but I wasted a year doing absolutely nothing. And I think getting a msc will take 4 years. So 24 years old and then something like 3 years phd. I´ll have wasted the best years of my life when I get out.
like myself
Hooloovoo Posted Apr 2, 2001
> but I wasted a year doing absolutely nothing
Well then......
> I´ll have wasted the best years of my life when I get out.
If you think getting a PhD is wasting the best years of your life, then don't do it. Simple as that. Personally, I think its quite worthwhile, and I certainly don't think of university as an institution that I will "get out" from when I've finished my sentence.
Hooloovoo
like myself
Xanatic Posted Apr 3, 2001
Well, I´d love to learn all those things in University. And experience the uni-life. But I would also like to experience "real life" soon. And having to wait 7-8 years with that just doesn´t sound attractive. But of course, I´ll still have about 40 years of "real life" left afterwards.
like myself
Hooloovoo Posted Apr 3, 2001
A PhD is much much different from an undergraduate degree. It's a research position, not a taught course. For me, starting a PhD is in effect my first "real job" as a scientist. The fact that I get a qualification and a title at end is a bonus.
I guess it all really depends on whether you see your career developing as a scientist or as something else.
Hooloovoo
like myself
Hooloovoo Posted Apr 3, 2001
Not sure yet, but definately something computational. There are quite a few possible projects, one of them is working on gravitational waves (which would be front-line Nobel prize winning stuff ), another is basically a continuation of my final year thesis on helioseismology.
I had an interview last Monday, which went really well. But I'm unlikely to be getting a first class degree which means its going to be difficult for me to get a research grant. I'll probably have to do an MSc for a year before I can start a PhD, bit of a pain but thats the way it is. Should know in a few weeks hopefully...
Hooloovoo
like myself
Juliet Posted Apr 4, 2001
Sounds like a lot of fun.
Hey - as a physicist you should be able to see the link between "definitely" and the word "finite"!!
like myself
Hooloovoo Posted Apr 4, 2001
I assume you mean something less obvious than the fact that "definitely" has the word "finite" in it??
Hooloovoo
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