@colorado_mom well i enjoy the theory behind things, and sometimes i get enthralled in understanding those theories more so than coming up with applications (example: i love electricity and magnetism. i love the relativity shift that is involved in getting that to work. i love learning about photons and subatomic particles. but i don’t really care much for circuits and measuring lasers). but i imagine that working in a theoretical physics field (if it’s even possible?) just means doing academia and research and im not sure if i would enjoy that as much as i would actually applying things to create real products or something. (i know, it sounds like i just contradicted myself. i enjoy learning the theory more so than the experimental side, but id rather work in application than in theory.) well i think i just did contradict myself… but that’s how i happen to feel about the subject.
@ucbalumnus hm, when i look up program requirements for physics (at UCSD), it allows for 3 electives but they have to be physics related. same for the individual econ major, it requires like 5 econ electives. so that’s why im considering double majoring since i can’t really take electives from other fields to have a nice financial understanding of things. im not sure if this is a matter of me misinterpreting the regulations when it comes to electives or not, though.