MS1 is MSover (almost). What will MS2 be?

WayOutWestMom
Fri, 13 May 2011 12:51:03 +0000

It’s interesting to listen to all this. Partly because D1’s physics background may actually be useful in this process. Not because of the material content she learned, but the life lessons majoring in physics taught her–she will never be the smartest kid in the class; she will always have to succeed by dint of effort and not innate ability/brilliance; she will always have to study better, not study harder, than the next kid over; there are many different ways to reach a correct solutions, if your first approach doesn’t work, try something else.

(“Physicists eat their young” is a unfortunate truism about the profession. Her modern physics prof–which is the first intro class for majors-- routinely assigned problem sets from graduate textbooks to all these kids just starting to learn the material. Talk about a soul crushing experience! No wonder 70% of the class failed the course and immediately changed majors. D1 managed a C and was proud of it. Her major cohort started out at over 250 sophomore year–and just 14 graduated.)