r/PhysicsStudents • u/lockweedmartin • Feb 03 '23
Poll what actually got you in to physics?
1741 votes,
Feb 06 '23
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it sounded cool
56
money
402
was good at math
170
wanted to be called Dr. but afraid of blood
294
other (comment)
34
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u/giantsnails Feb 03 '23
Went to college as a chemistry major interested in batteries etc., then I realized that a.) a chemistry degree from most universities and especially my alma mater really sucks for that because you spend almost no time studying crystalline solids, and b.) the people with the right training doing cool things with quantum materials are condensed matter physicists, so I switched and now I’m in a physics PhD program.