It wasn't necessarily a bad experience, it was just the nature of Physics research. From what the grad students and the other REU students said, it is a lot of slaving away for not all that tangible of a reward. Through engineering I think I would be working for an actual cause, not just to get...
Up until this past summer, I thought I was going to go to Physics grad school following my undergraduate study. I worked at an REU program at UC Davis this summer, and decided that physics was not the route for me.
Now I am trying to decide to which engineering discipline I should apply. I have...