Most people first encounter prerequisites in college. Your advisor will sternly tell you that you can’t take that engineering class without sitting through linear algebra first. At an unfortunate number of schools this is the end of the discussion. However, at many colleges, the professor has discretion over who can...
Read moreIf you’re in the US, the path to IPhO looks clear: pick up some physics textbooks and start studying, do lots of problems. This is literally all you need in order to qualify for the training camp. After you get there though, you’ll encounter something you might have never seen...
Read moreHaving recently competed for the last time in high school physics olympiads, I feel like it’d be useful to try to distill some of what I’ve learned to other people. So I’m making a series of posts. This one is about common misconceptions people have about the process, from getting...
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