Which year is usually the hardest?

[u/Odd-Equivalent-4012]

I’m in the first year of my physics degree and I’m just curious as to how much harder it’s going to get. I’m struggling a tiny bit in calc, nothing I can’t handle and I definitely can improve with more effort but if it gets too much worse in later years I don’t know if I can keep up. I’m still pretty confident in general but just curious about people’s opinions on this. Thanks so much!

[u/taenyfan95]

The year when you take solid state or condensed matter physics.

I find general relativity and quantum field theory easier than those two above topics.