I'm studying physics, mainly because anyone can get into physics so easily. Maybe half of the first year students are left after the first year at physics, most get into medical or technical college, then there are the odd theology and politics ones.
I've been thinking of changing to chinese and taking a few minors from economics, korean or japanese. That would give a nice package to a good job. Unlike physics that only gets you a place for research, which, to tell the truth, sucks.
At uni you can't even slack for a second or you'll fail .
Jobs come very easy for a person who graduated in physics, we can basically do anything (which is another reason why I chose it), so I'm not worried about that.
Also another reason why I chose an science based study is because I can easily revert to any other study of my choice if I desire. Graduating is physics is probably the most difficult thing you can do in the academic world.
How many laughed when they read those?
*raises hand* I did.
You can lack off all you like, check.
Physics doesn't practically give you any jobs at all, check.
Physics hard? Compared to chemistry it's hard. Compared to lawschool, no, no it ain't. Only if you sucked at math in high school then it's hard.
You can't slack off all you like ... I did that last year and to be frank my grades dropped a lot. I did make it though.
Law school harder than physics? This is what I lolled at. Physics is 30+ hours per week and law school is 8+ hours a week. Obviously we need more hours of guidance because physics just requires a lot of guidance because it's harder. At the end you control both physics and math up to a very high level. Math doesn't come naturally for like 70% of the people. Also theoretical physics is probably the only field that has so many questions unanswered. And that's natural because physics describes nature and nature by definition is a difficult thing to understand.
And physics aka beta study does give you a lot of job opportunities. Beta people are needed for their analytic skill and rational thinking and there is huge shortage of them (well at least here).
And who says applied mathematics isn't hard? For example Advanced Statistical Mathematics is so difficult that hardly any physics student takes that class (at least that's what I heard, and I have no reason to doubt those people).
But yeah that isn't the topic here. OP good luck with finding what you want to do :3
Let's see, physics, five two hour lectures a week, where I don't have to go. Three two hour calculation classes, where I have to be 1/3rd of the time. That's 16 hours if I attend everything each week. But yeah, the time spent at the calculation is humongous, get two assignments each week to do at home, can take upto 7 hours each. So that would be 30 hours a week max. BUT, I've got maybe 1000-2000 pages to study a whole year and that's the stuff that you calculate and go throuh at the lectures anyways. Lawschool guys have same amount of pages for one course and it's mostly besides of the lectures so yeah, I couldn't take that. I just smirk from the sidelines as I see the amount of studying my friend's got. Inhuman I tell you!
But then again, he's going to get paid five times what I am when he graduates, that's considering if I get lucky and land a job from somewhere other than McDonalds...
No one really does calculate statistical mathematics here, that course is an IT one. It's about building the code that's going to be used for those maths then. No one's masochistic enough to actually do it themselves.
And of course high level maths don't come naturally to 95% of the people but over half of those don't even go to highschool not to mention continue to university, much less to physics. The best usually go to medical, law, biotech, tech college or tech uni physics get's those who didn't get into better ones, the lazy ones(like me) and the few who actually care about it.
