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Alex Petrosyan
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Hello everyone, I'm a Physics student on a gap year, doing a bit of work ATM.
I'm going to come back in October this year to do a one-year Masters' at Cambridge, and I'm faced with a tough choice:
A) Specialize in Astrophysics/cosmology, which is something that I'm not as good at, but really feel comfortable doing.
B) Don't specialize, see how it goes, and leave as many doors open for a PhD.
C) Specialize in Condensed Matter Physics, which is something that I'm really good at, but which is also highly competitive, and not something that I could really say I love.
The main problem is that I know for sure that Astro has a set of well-defined, difficult, and somewhat popular problems. Condensed matter is on the other hand a complete mystery. `There are other areas of Physics that I neither like nor do well in, so Particle Physics et al, I won't do more than I have to.
I'm going to come back in October this year to do a one-year Masters' at Cambridge, and I'm faced with a tough choice:
A) Specialize in Astrophysics/cosmology, which is something that I'm not as good at, but really feel comfortable doing.
B) Don't specialize, see how it goes, and leave as many doors open for a PhD.
C) Specialize in Condensed Matter Physics, which is something that I'm really good at, but which is also highly competitive, and not something that I could really say I love.
The main problem is that I know for sure that Astro has a set of well-defined, difficult, and somewhat popular problems. Condensed matter is on the other hand a complete mystery. `There are other areas of Physics that I neither like nor do well in, so Particle Physics et al, I won't do more than I have to.