@rorie said:
I got to Fourier transforms in my physics education before I NOPED out of it and went to English. Also, when cosmology went from "hey this star is not rotating and is perfectly spherical" to "hey this star is rotating and deformed at its equator due to that rotation," holy shit did the equations get complicated.
Hey, I took nearly the same path! I went specifically for Engineering Physics, which just means they supposedly try to apply it more to things you can actually build, like a more theoretical Mechanical Engineering program.
My first upper-level physics course, equivalent to a basic intro to quantum mechanics, was taught by someone who'd won a nobel prize in physics just a couple years earlier. That was super rad, and by the end of the semester we could understand everything going on in his research. He was just a fantastic, well spoken professor too.
But then I had two professors in a row who were just the worst. It was bad enough the material got way more dry and theoretical, with all the classes boiling down to finding the equations to describe the same sorts of increasingly complex systems, but the profs did absolutely nothing to put anything into easier to understand terms. I ended up learning more from the TAs in study halls than any of the profs.
So all that combined with other unrelated stuff, I dropped out and just directly started working at an engineering office, later going back to get an English degree. I feel like some people think it's lame to "fall back" on an English degree, and I won't deny that that's sorta what happened, but I still work in engineering/computer-science, and all the technical writing stuff I learned has been immensely useful.
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