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Cluelessluke
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Hey everyone! I am finishing my very first semester of grad school in physics and I'm just trying to get a feel if my emotions and thoughts are normal for a beginning grad student in physics.
I'm taking beginning grad courses in classical, quantum, and EM. After this semester, I know I find quantum much much much much more interesting than EM. So I've been putting a lot more effort into the quantum class (not purposefully, but I just enjoy it a lot more). My grades are usually above average or on par with my other classmates for the most part but everyone once in awhile everyone will understand a concept that just won't click for me and its very discouraging, like that I don't belong in this program.
I just got my quantum final exam score back and out of 15 people, 9 got A's and 6 got B's. I was one with a B. The professor said that he thought I didn't do as well as I could but this score is still very very discouraging and now I'm worried that at the end of the year I won't pass the qualifying exam. This is all very stressful.
I'm just wondering if stress and discouragement like this is normal for beginning grad students. Thanks for your time.
I'm taking beginning grad courses in classical, quantum, and EM. After this semester, I know I find quantum much much much much more interesting than EM. So I've been putting a lot more effort into the quantum class (not purposefully, but I just enjoy it a lot more). My grades are usually above average or on par with my other classmates for the most part but everyone once in awhile everyone will understand a concept that just won't click for me and its very discouraging, like that I don't belong in this program.
I just got my quantum final exam score back and out of 15 people, 9 got A's and 6 got B's. I was one with a B. The professor said that he thought I didn't do as well as I could but this score is still very very discouraging and now I'm worried that at the end of the year I won't pass the qualifying exam. This is all very stressful.
I'm just wondering if stress and discouragement like this is normal for beginning grad students. Thanks for your time.