Astronomy after Engineering
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 5:46 pm
greetings,
well, long story short,...
i am an indian, got my PRODUCTION engineering degree from a so-so indian university back in 2008. landed a job at a major power company and continued to haul weights and open valves there for another 4 years till the end of 2012. which is when i decided to get out from under a rock and actually do something about it. gave my gre general test and got a score of 160q , 161v and 3.0a! my engineering aggregate was 58.4 % which an online converter told me was equal to a 3.0 GPA, but i dont think its reliable. (Damn Nagpur University was stingy with marks, even the topper of my branch got a 65% only)
i want to get into astronomy and dont know how i should go about it. am preparing for my physics subject gre, but i am unsure of how universities will see me, which ones i would like to go to or for a fact, whether such a transition is even possible....i just know i have a deep passion for astronomy, and if i dont get into this line of work, my life will be essentially over. my degree and job have nothing to do with astronomy whatsoever. i dont have any research papers to my credit, no lab experience, nothing. i want to get into a decent university preferably in the US of A. but i am not very picky. can you please suggest me what i should do? how to go about things, even what you might do in such a predicament. i cant see myself happy unless i am looking through a giant ass telescope, peering through to get to the heart of the cosmos for the rest of my life.
but seriously, i am not getting anywhere far on my own like this....i need a step by step for how i can get into a decent university studying astronomy/physics/ maths.....because to be honest i dont have a clue. i resigned from my job 2 years ago hoping i would be somewhere by now, but, at 27... i am still at home...barely studying my old physics and math books.
but i want to change all that. i want to study hard for my physics gre test which is in april next year and get a decent score.
am i doing the right thing? is there any hope for me? or do i need to rethink my plan of action. i have so many doubts.
only one thing is certain, if i dont make it.....my life wont be pleasurable for me anymore, ever.
how can i become an astronomer?
someone help me out here. please!
well, long story short,...
i am an indian, got my PRODUCTION engineering degree from a so-so indian university back in 2008. landed a job at a major power company and continued to haul weights and open valves there for another 4 years till the end of 2012. which is when i decided to get out from under a rock and actually do something about it. gave my gre general test and got a score of 160q , 161v and 3.0a! my engineering aggregate was 58.4 % which an online converter told me was equal to a 3.0 GPA, but i dont think its reliable. (Damn Nagpur University was stingy with marks, even the topper of my branch got a 65% only)
i want to get into astronomy and dont know how i should go about it. am preparing for my physics subject gre, but i am unsure of how universities will see me, which ones i would like to go to or for a fact, whether such a transition is even possible....i just know i have a deep passion for astronomy, and if i dont get into this line of work, my life will be essentially over. my degree and job have nothing to do with astronomy whatsoever. i dont have any research papers to my credit, no lab experience, nothing. i want to get into a decent university preferably in the US of A. but i am not very picky. can you please suggest me what i should do? how to go about things, even what you might do in such a predicament. i cant see myself happy unless i am looking through a giant ass telescope, peering through to get to the heart of the cosmos for the rest of my life.
but seriously, i am not getting anywhere far on my own like this....i need a step by step for how i can get into a decent university studying astronomy/physics/ maths.....because to be honest i dont have a clue. i resigned from my job 2 years ago hoping i would be somewhere by now, but, at 27... i am still at home...barely studying my old physics and math books.
but i want to change all that. i want to study hard for my physics gre test which is in april next year and get a decent score.
am i doing the right thing? is there any hope for me? or do i need to rethink my plan of action. i have so many doubts.
only one thing is certain, if i dont make it.....my life wont be pleasurable for me anymore, ever.
how can i become an astronomer?
someone help me out here. please!