More physics degree horror stories

[@adflicto1]

My physics horror story is getting to study physics without knowing the fundamentals of math

[@sabinehartung2260]

Aleksandar Spasov saaaaaaame

[@Thats_Neat]

lol

[@HilbertXVI]

Aleksandar Spasov Ouch

[@PhysicistGamer]

Lmao

[@patrick_test123]

Too early to be funny to me.

[@evgiz0r]

My friend woke up, was smiling, and went to the take the test of QM2. It was unfortunate for him that the exam actually happened the day before and he just got confused with the days while doing allnighters with himself.

[@nelsonfee1272]

Whether it’s horror stories or awkward ones, they are so enjoyable. Having their assignments obliterated by the cleaning lady or doing a research about the wrong topic, I look forward to more videos about this peculiar stories. Great work :D

[@leetalush886]

These are so funny, I love your channel Tibees!! My own physics horror story went sort of like this: I started at the bottom in math and took 8 math classes to reach calculus 2 as a co requisite for physics (interest was in astronomy). My first physics class was so challenging and so painfully stressful, that I switched my major because of it. I still hope i'll take physics again for fun some time.

[@tomohawkacrossthemap]

I'm a 3rd year physics major at the University of Southern California right now. Your videos are very relatable! Keep up the great work, and good luck on your studies!

[@northwardchaser2823]

While not quite physics, I have a few undergrad mechanical engineering horror stories. -A business ethics test and a mechanics of materials test back to back right before reading week -A lab report written with 2/3 of the required data because the TA lost it -A course run by a prof who has been teaching for 50 years with a 70% exam. He allows you all resources in the tests and exams and writes hard, original questions. (I actually loved this course though) -Finding out about my statistics midterm the day of -A course on solving PDEs. -having a 3D print of a prototype finish about 15 minutes before the presentation Edit: -The hamburger from hell

[@1998wiwi]

that equation chanting part sounds Lovecraftian, you're lucky you didn't summon something on accident lol

[@akapo98]

I would have straight up fainted had the Laser story happened to me. Great video!

[@koob837]

Love your videos Tibees, it's so interesting to hear about your experiences. I'll be starting my Chemistry degree this year and it's really inspiring and motivating just hearing your stories, as it makes me want to go and forge my own!

[@austincheong8629]

I'm a third year/fourth year physics student, and sat through this video being really confused as to why the background was so familiar--then i looked you up and found out i go here. i really like your videos, see you around toby!

[@BlacksterVFX]

These stories are so entertaining, please keep new episodes coming.

[@schizosven9829]

I've got two. The first one is extremely similar to the fire alarm story told here, though I didn't personally experience it; it's more or less a rumor, but knowing the professor involved, there's nothing about it that I don't completely believe. During a first year mechanics exam, someone set off the fire alarm. However, before everyone made for the exit, the professor informed everyone that they would need to bring with them their exam, a pencil and a book or the like to write on. I can only imagine the sight; a class of students in the parking lot during a fire scare, sitting on the ground and trying to finish and exam. The second one was a personal experience. I served as lab specialist for two years, assisting both the physics and the engineering departments. One of our engineering professors had been lecturing a course on digital electronics, and part of my job was to assist with the lab work and serve as class tutor since I had taken the class the year prior. This professor had to leave on business, so I was to fill in for a lab session; the lab was a simple combinational logic circuit lab and they were to have been taught everything required. Well, they weren't. The panic began to set in when I realized that in order for the lab to go smoothly, I would have to lecture a room of approximately thirty students in circuit simplification via K-Maps of four or more variables. I'm sure this wouldn't be a big deal to most, but I'm an immensely quiet person that has trouble speaking one-on-one to students in an informal lab setting. Long story short, I managed to teach them effectively, and everyone was able to finish the lab with time to spare in the session.

[@davidsweeney111]

great vid, I love to hear your u/grad stories, sounds like you need a sense of humour to carry you through a physics degree, people tell me its the hardest degree to do? I did english lit which I quite enjoyed, lots of reading and no maths lol :)

[@RonJohn63]

7:57 As soon as you said "left it physics students' room" I knew *exactly* what was going to happen.

[@raula6830]

It is very nice to have more than 2 videos per week! About the stories I feel sorry for your friend and his lost assignment. I am amazed that you have time to have an active youtube channel and you are studying a Phd. Hopefully your channel keeps growing and some day in the future you publish a video about how you finish your Phd. And finally sorry for the bad english.

[@matthewzarate9116]

1:46 oh my god I laughed out loud to that 😂💀💀

[@tombufford8659]

You did turn up at the correct time ,room and university!

[@dg0210]

These stories are great yet terrifying keep them coming, if you want to of course :D

[@Philosopheful]

Chapter 4 of Marion and Thornton that we used is about chaos and nonlinear oscillations. We skipped this chapter entirely, as outlined by the syllabus, which the professor followed religiously. The last lecture before the first midterm, the professor says that the exam will cover topics from chapters 1, 2, 5, 6. Problem 1 of 2 is a calculus of variations problem, finding the geodesic on a torus. Problem 2 of 2 on the exam is a derivation and diagram lifted directly from chapter 4. Luckily, it was an open book exam, so that alleviated the shock a little of having a problem entirely unfamiliar to us. It was a surprise, to be sure, but an unwelcome one. In a real analysis course, my friends and I went to the TA's morning office hours to go over some problems and last minute questions before the exam that evening. We get several minutes into one of the problems, and the TA clasps his hand to his forehead in defeat, and gives up. He says to not worry about it, the problem is very hard, and it won't be on the test. Problem 4 of 4 on the exam was that very same problem from the TA's morning office hours. Still not sure how to solve it even now, even after all this time.

[@ronalrocco4922]

strange but difficult times apparently for you. confidence would help you geniuses.

[@shadeoracle]

As a physics tutor at UC, I'm glad I haven't ended up in these horror stories (so far at least). :D

[@SimakSantana]

congrats on 10k subs!

[@conallharkin5365]

hi, and congrats on 10k subs! I was hoping to ask, if I were to study a degree in physics with philosophy rather than just physics, could it affect my chances of being able to go on to do a PhD in physics? I'm in the U.K., if that matters

[@Fallkhar]

Great video! I'd like to see more similar ones.

[@evgiz0r]

And one more, me and my friend were doing an astronomy lab with the telescope. It was a night and we must be together to watch/measure the stuff on the computer. My friend was a party guy, and he said ok i am outa here gonna go party. I was his friend and like ok whatever nobody will come. An hour after he left, at around 1AM the instructor comes in and is very upset - I knew you were not here together and blabla. I tried to make some excuse for my friend, he went to help somebody with something "very urgent" *party* *cough*. We thought he is going to fail us or something, but in the end i made him calm down, measures were and good and i helped him clean :)

[@uchihamadara6024]

I have a computer science horror story where I spent 20+ hours perfecting this code for an assignment, testing it, etc. I handed it in and a week later I checked my mark and saw that I got 6/30 on it since for some reason all of my code failed the test cases(and it was worth 10% of my grade). Moral of the story, you're never safe in uni

[@averagebloke4474]

Could I still get into engineering at 25m

[@notjustwarwick4432]

Yes you can start at any time as long as you willing to put in the effort

[@Azagro]

My mate in the same year is 36 and I am 20, ME.

[@taylormorrow2741]

Good work Good wishes, fantastic Series.

[@christophertstone]

How did you escape university without a dozen Group Project horror stories?! Are Group Projects just not a thing there, or is there some mechanism where everyone pulls their weight? Almost every Group Project I ever did had at least one person who was dead weight, and another who actively prevented progress (typically by being an incomprehensible dimwit with no business being admitted to the school).

[@zokalyx]

I don't know much about college/university, I'm still in high school. Is it possible to do various majors at the same time? I know this will make laugh some of you, but I really like Math, Physics and Computer Science. I would like to somehow get degrees with those. I thought about engineering but I figured that MAYBE (i don't actually know) the studies would be more oriented to practice, and I wouldn't see Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Special and General Relativity, among other things. Same goes with Math like Topology, Real and complex analysis, Number theory, etc.. Could I get various degrees? Some say to me I should choose. I really don't want to! I love all of those :(

[@danielstone7921]

I find interesting exactly those three topics (Math, Physics, Computer Science). I do think you must narrow it down. I am leaning toward computer science right now since I have fallen in love with algorithms and logic in general. Even more specifically, I think I will study AI. Not that I will stop doing physics and pure math though!!!!!

[@Blaze098890]

You are greatly underestimating the work required for a degree. Furthermore, you won't see QFT at undergraduate level and it is also possible that you will not see GR as well.

[@jamesliu3295]

It's possible to do any amount but it's best only to double major Expect studying day to night to get a triple major lol

[@irenefelix7549]

It happens to me too, I was in a exposition and there was a question from someone and another person from the audience answer it. :O

[@morgard211]

Do you have that sheet? I want to memorize it as well.

[@gizmod22]

Funny stories, like the vids

[@honeymartin9120]

Thanks so much for you video 😇

[@Gabrielr8]

the physics exam i took today was a nightmare haha

[@tombufford8659]

I like your T shirts.

[@CrushOfSiel]

My horror story is my stat mech final. The midterm's average was 11 percent, ELEVEN. I scored 42 percent and was the high-score. I was so nervous for the final I vomited 5 minutes before it, I then took it and proceeded to not do so great. Falling from an A to a B+ because of it, the only non-A I had for undergrad. :(. I later found out the teach gave 0 A's for that course and only one A-, nuts.

[@nestorv7627]

nice vid

[@CosmosBFN]

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