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loom91
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Hi,
I'm currently in high school (11th grade) in India with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics as subjects. I just love Physics, and I also like computers.
Physics is my favourite subject, I can hardly get enough of it. I'm a firm believer that Physics is locally isomorphic to mathematics, and I always prefer a mathematical and advanced way into physics rather than a pictorial and oversimplified one. I study beyond the level of my course in physics, and I love what quantum mechanics I've seen. I think minowski spaces and vector invariance provide a much better and understandable oath into relativity than the standard Einstein's postulates approach followed in textbooks. I'm easily the best physics student in my circle (that includes my school and my tutorial).
I'm not one of those prodigies who are professional programmers by the age of 10, but I've completely self-taught everything I know about computer to the point where given an unfamiliar application I can read a few help files/online tutorials for a couple of hours and glean a working knowledge of it. I like C++ and hate Java and its derivatives like C#. Given time, I can tinker around to solve most minor software problems, though my aptitude and interest for the hardware part is remarkably poor. People around me usually turn to me as the first step in computer troubleshooting and doing tasks like image editing and DTP.
I find the concepts and theory of math to be interesting (complex analysis and linear algebra being my favorite parts), but my computational skills are somewhat poor, and I can't do the convoluted manipulations that is the mainstay of exams here.
I find physics to be more interesting than computer, but I'm not sure I'm cut out for the intensive and complicated math in modern research physics, because I don't usually make the top 10 in math in my class. Also, computer pays better than physics.
Taking everything into account, would it be better for me to pursue a course in computer engineering or a physics honours? Of course a dual degree sounds good, but I'm not sure I can put in the extra work required to pursue two bachelors at once (I'm the super-dooper lazy type) and most places here probably won't allow it anyway (courses are not at all flexible here).
Thanks for your help.
Molu
I'm currently in high school (11th grade) in India with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics as subjects. I just love Physics, and I also like computers.
Physics is my favourite subject, I can hardly get enough of it. I'm a firm believer that Physics is locally isomorphic to mathematics, and I always prefer a mathematical and advanced way into physics rather than a pictorial and oversimplified one. I study beyond the level of my course in physics, and I love what quantum mechanics I've seen. I think minowski spaces and vector invariance provide a much better and understandable oath into relativity than the standard Einstein's postulates approach followed in textbooks. I'm easily the best physics student in my circle (that includes my school and my tutorial).
I'm not one of those prodigies who are professional programmers by the age of 10, but I've completely self-taught everything I know about computer to the point where given an unfamiliar application I can read a few help files/online tutorials for a couple of hours and glean a working knowledge of it. I like C++ and hate Java and its derivatives like C#. Given time, I can tinker around to solve most minor software problems, though my aptitude and interest for the hardware part is remarkably poor. People around me usually turn to me as the first step in computer troubleshooting and doing tasks like image editing and DTP.
I find the concepts and theory of math to be interesting (complex analysis and linear algebra being my favorite parts), but my computational skills are somewhat poor, and I can't do the convoluted manipulations that is the mainstay of exams here.
I find physics to be more interesting than computer, but I'm not sure I'm cut out for the intensive and complicated math in modern research physics, because I don't usually make the top 10 in math in my class. Also, computer pays better than physics.
Taking everything into account, would it be better for me to pursue a course in computer engineering or a physics honours? Of course a dual degree sounds good, but I'm not sure I can put in the extra work required to pursue two bachelors at once (I'm the super-dooper lazy type) and most places here probably won't allow it anyway (courses are not at all flexible here).
Thanks for your help.
Molu
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