🧵 Should I major in physics
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 00:26:43 UTC No. 16461588
I mainly did cs during highschool and although cs is very fun (more so than even physics), i have come to the conclusion that a cs degree is a meme. The way it is taught in school is neither interesting nor very hard. Anyone who says it is hard is coping out of their mind. Show a cs major picard-lindelof to shut them up.
Theres also the fact that you can learn 99% of the stuff without blowing 200k.
I want to study physics in college but I don't want to become a homeless fag. I will try to adjust in a cs minor or even double major.
Can someone detail the post grad experience as a physics major
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 01:53:02 UTC No. 16461644
Physics is a dead end field in terms of actual academia and career opportunities. The current political environment is toxic towards those pursuing purely intellectual career fields.
You're going to need to fight against the corrupt government.
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Stop guessing start learning at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 02:28:25 UTC No. 16461682
>>16461588
Don't do physics. If you do use your mathematics skills to go and be a statistician. Or work for wall street. Science is dead unless your working for DOD contractors. But that depends on the region you live in wether those contractors are near.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 02:34:13 UTC No. 16461692
>>16461588
It just depends on what you want to do. If you care mostly about making money, EE, CS, Applied Math or Statistics are all good choices. Applied physics is also a good choice if you go to a good school that's well connected.
Theoretical physics is basically dead at this point from an academic research perspective and offers you far less practical value to employers than many other stem degrees with similar mathematics/physics requirements.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 03:11:28 UTC No. 16461718
>>16461588
>I want to study physics in college but I don't want to become a homeless fag.
Then don't study physics. It has no practical value whatsoever. Worse than a gender studies major, at least you could get some bullshit DEI job with that.
>t. physics grad
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 03:36:13 UTC No. 16461745
>>16461692
>Theoretical physics is basically dead at this point
JWST just found that there are galaxies in our Universe older than the Big Bang, which basically invalidates much of the theory of the last 100 years. The fact that what you said also makes sense despite this should make people realise that there is something really wrong and deeply rotten in physics and in science in general.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 03:36:58 UTC No. 16461746
>>16461718
>t. physics grad
what are you or your peers doing currently?
Is it possible to study physics and get a job in software if i do a double major?
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 05:32:51 UTC No. 16461829
>>16461746
Yeah if you do a tech related major but a double major in physics and tech will be exhausting and unmanageable unless you dedicate all of your time to studying.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 07:45:46 UTC No. 16461886
>>16461588
just get an engineering degree. far more marketable than a physics degree assuming you stop at bs rather than phd.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 08:25:29 UTC No. 16461904
>>16461588
Check out >>>/sci/scg and teh FAQ. It answers most of your questions.
>>16461682
>Don't do physics.
Diasagree.
t.Physicist.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 08:28:11 UTC No. 16461906
>>16461746
Not a single one of the people I studied physics with got a job in anything related to physics. In my experience is easily the worst STEM major in terms of its job prospects, except for the fact that biology offers jobs with generally horrible work conditions.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:25:53 UTC No. 16461924
>>16461745
Don't get me wrong, I think within the next 100 years or so we will learn quite a lot about how wrong our current physics models are.
I'm an EE grad student who works quite closely with a couple of physics grad students focused on statistical mechanics and complex dynamical systems, and they definitely have lots of interesting work to do. I think the current discipline is too committed to doctrine to address the many problems with the doctrine directly. People are far too afraid within physics to directly address the numerous "but what if we're wrong" questions that can be answered because of the massive amount of crack pottery that happens outside of the realm of "rigorous academic physics."
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:31:29 UTC No. 16461927
>>16461904
When you say you're a physicist, do you mean in academia or some governmental research lab? Obviously, don't give anything too personal away. I'm just curious because I end up working with a lot of physics grads in my part of EE because there aren't enough genuine physics research positions open in the "dynamical systems" part of the field.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 10:25:13 UTC No. 16461945
>>16461588
Just finished mine. Regardless of how hard or easy finding a job is gonna be, my dick will be eternally huge since I've a physics bachelor's. Also, I've had some fun during the process.
You can get into data analysis as I've heard before and it's good money. You can do phys EE double major which is also good money.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 10:27:58 UTC No. 16461946
>>16461927
I did a postdoc in two different national labs, then went to industry, did embedded work and ended up as a patent attorney.
And yes, academic research is not a big employer, sadly. National labs, especially defence related, do a lot of work.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 15:27:17 UTC No. 16462212
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