u/IllustriousWindow484

Hi all,

So I'm in DP2 and finished with a 44 predicted, although I'm probably going to get something closer to a ~40 on my actual exams. The thing is, all of the universities I'm applying to are in the EU (english programs only, so no delft/tum/etc...) because tuition is just so much cheaper. My high school is super expensive, and the only reason I attend is because my dad's work agreed to pay for all of my high school education so he just picked the most expensive international school in the city.

The problem is, even though I could get accepted into Oxford and so on, there's no way my parents will finance my undergraduate studies in the UK, and there's no way that they qualify for financial aid either (international student)

It feels really demoralizing that all of my classmates are talking about high rankings and competitive admissions requirements (they obviously have no financial restriction, while the schools I'm applying to are the exact opposite. I feel like I'm just wasting the time I spent getting good grades, but at the same time I can't do anything about it. Whenever I tell my friends that I'm applying to schools in the EU they always say that they're not good, etc... Even though I know it's not true it still really sucks.

Is anyone else in the same predicament?

Edit: Thanks guys :) it’s nice to know I’m not the only one

hi! recently i've felt like i didn't really have anyone to talk to about some of my other interests so i figured that i'd try asking here online to see if anyone else has similar interests/hobbies.

i looove talking about politics (my beliefs are probably different from whatever yours are though), but i also like photography, hiking and math/physics.

i'm an ib student so i might not have the most time to chat in the world, but i'll try my best.

if all of that sounds good to you, leave a comment and i'll try to DM you. reddit is buggy asf so it might have to go to discord if reddit chat doesn't work.

my timezone is CET!

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también hablo español si lo prefieres, aunque todavía estoy aprendiendo el idioma. eso sí, me gustaría mucho practicarlo

Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to make an entire physics course without a single drop of proper calculus? You have to bend over backwards just to avoid using the “SCAARY” leibniz notation and instead use those bastard triangles. I have gotten so confused, so many times, whether something is a “slope” or it is just one thing divided by the other, or if it ACTUALLY is a fucking delta (eg. W = q🔺V). This one thing, along side the worthless memorization of “define __” which does very little in terms of actually learning physics is also annoying. If I don’t say a “positive test charge” my teacher gives me a ZERO on the define question. Why??? And we can’t do half of the derivations because my teacher can’t show them since they use the “scary calculus.”

In compared to the thought provoking, unique, succinct, and very well designed IB AA course, physics is just mediocre. I’ll give it to the IB people, some of the physics problems are actually pretty good, but many are tedious and annoying on the other hand.

PS: I’m like half serious here.

Edit: FUCK THE DOUBLE SINGLE GRATING SLIT INTERFERENCE DIFFRACTION ITS ACTUALLY THE WORST