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"My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat." Thank god I am not the only one!
by taopai 3y ago
"My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat."
Thank god I am not the only one!
- pfdietz 3y agoIn fairness, I'm not sure the return to society of minting another physicist is all that high. Many seem to go into computing anyway.
- taopai 3y agoWell I think undergrad just stamps a label in your forehead. What you do in your free time, most important, what job you get and who seriously you jump into it is what determines your value to society. Carsten Dominik, another physicist, was the creator of org-mode. I don't think physicist have an advantage over CS graduates, in fact reading code written by physicists is like watching and horror movie. But everyone can contribute a tiny bit. You are right, a lot of my friends, who studied physics, take the jobs CS undergrads don't want to do, and get really low salaries...
- vincent-manis 3y agoI started university in 1967, intending to study physics. Unfortunately, Physics was at 0830, and I soon discovered that I liked physics, but not enough to get to campus reliably at that time. Fortunately, Computer Science was at 1630. My academic career was thus determined.