Hey! I'm happy to say that I have been educated enough to enjoy your posts and musings that I've discovered serendipitously like many things on the tumblrverse Since you're a physics major, what would you recommend me to brace for since I'm planning on getting into it once I graduate from high school in month? What would I need to make it and enjoy it?
Hi! Glad to know that you enjoy my comics,it is always a pleasure to meet another physics enthusiast. First of all, and not only for physics, but for any career that you'd like to get into, it must be something that you love and you should keep with it no matter how difficult it seems to be. Many people think physcis is difficult, and well, it's not easy, but if you really make an effort in every thing you do, it becomes easy. By my own experience, I was a zero in maths at highschool, I failed every single math test in my last two years but still I wanted to do science so during college I worked very hard on my own to get better and well, it seems it went good. So, maths, yeah, you need maths and you will never ever have maths enough, so if yu enjoy them things will be easygoing. First years studying physcis are basically maths (algebra, calculus, differential calculus, mathematical methods..), at least here in Spain we study for 5 years and the first 2 of them, the majority of subjects are MATHS, and still in my 5th I think that i'd need one or two more math subjects to get everything that I'm studying.
Apart from it, well, if you liked physcis in high school you're totally gonna love advanced physcis since every single thing that they make you learn without explanation, suddenly make sense and it's beatiful when that happens. At the time of taking physcis related subjects, that's totally up to your preferences. I'm more into astrophysics and theoretical physics, but experimental physcis subjects are also enjoyable and for sure, more concrete.
In my first years I read a lot of easy reading books about cosmology, quantum mechanichs, etc. just to get motivated even when I didn't understand every part of them, so maybe it's a good idea for summer to take some of Stephen Hawking, Isaac Asimov or Carl Sagan texts just to train your inner geek.
So, basically thats all that I have to say. The brief answer: If you like it, just do it no matter how difficult it can be. If you work hard you will do it.
I hope I helped you and anyone that's planning on start a career in physics, I'm always glad to encourage anyone to do it, because I'm passionate about it! So, good luck and never give up! ;D
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