| determined_novice 2006-07-31, 1:15 am |
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Dances With Crows wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2006 10:12:54 -0700, determined_novice staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
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> I was just thinking that physics was similar to chemistry in the amount
> of time it required from even undergrads. (Classes + labs: roughly 35
> hours/week. Homework: usually > 8 hours/week.) That's like a full-time
> job. (Oh, and beer drinking... that takes up time as well!)
I'm in India. Classes+Labs=44hrs/week. Homework: 16hrs a week. Don't
believe me: Ask some Mumbai univ physics major. To be able to pursue my
extra-curricular studies, I sleep only 3/24hrs.
>
> FWIW, there's no need to buy a distro. Your university may have a Linux
> User Group in it, or if the town you're in is > 80,000 people, there's a
> LUG there. Go to one of those meetings and one of the LUG members will
> probably hook you up with a recent distro CD. If there's no LUG in the
> area, just use your university's Net drop to grab the latest Mandriva or
> Ubuntu, then burn that to CD. Undergrads need to save up their $ for
> beer and Ramen, after all....
I'm getting one for Rs50(=$1) from local downloading agents.
Thanks for all your interest and goodwill.
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