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Hi guys i am currently a year 1 student and i am doing physics major and i am having a tough time now Even though what i am learning now is the basic of physics, sometimes i find myself lost during lecture and can't make any sense of what the lecturer is saying. Is this a common thing that most people experience or is it just me
At times i have though of giving up and do some other degree but i can't really think of what other things i want to do other than physics So do you guys think that even someone with such low caliber can do physics?
I have always been fascinated by cool gadgets and the job prospect of being a nano engineer has always been very appealing to me until i started to do physics major that is. I have found myself hating to go to physics lab classes because we just can't produce the damn theoretical result that we wanted or expected and i find that very annoying. The lab manager told us it is impossible to get the experimental data from the theory that we learn and that greatly disappoint me for some reason.
After the experience i felt that being a theoretical physicist might be what i really wanted to do since i prefer to solve questions and understand physics rather than proof them by doing countless experiments. I read a book which briefly talks about the period when string theory was first introduced and i decided that this is the thing i want to do and not sitting around the lab watching the pendulum However i have been wondering does a theoretical physicist have to do experiments to proof their point? So do you guys think that i should continue my pursuit to be a nano engineer or follow what i think i want even though i am not so smart and be a theoretical physicist?
I apologize if some of the statement does not make sense as i am in kinda confused state when i am typing this
At times i have though of giving up and do some other degree but i can't really think of what other things i want to do other than physics So do you guys think that even someone with such low caliber can do physics?
I have always been fascinated by cool gadgets and the job prospect of being a nano engineer has always been very appealing to me until i started to do physics major that is. I have found myself hating to go to physics lab classes because we just can't produce the damn theoretical result that we wanted or expected and i find that very annoying. The lab manager told us it is impossible to get the experimental data from the theory that we learn and that greatly disappoint me for some reason.
After the experience i felt that being a theoretical physicist might be what i really wanted to do since i prefer to solve questions and understand physics rather than proof them by doing countless experiments. I read a book which briefly talks about the period when string theory was first introduced and i decided that this is the thing i want to do and not sitting around the lab watching the pendulum However i have been wondering does a theoretical physicist have to do experiments to proof their point? So do you guys think that i should continue my pursuit to be a nano engineer or follow what i think i want even though i am not so smart and be a theoretical physicist?
I apologize if some of the statement does not make sense as i am in kinda confused state when i am typing this