Is returning to school sensible for me?

[Vanadium 50]

As Eliza Doolittle sang,

The rain in Maine falls mainly down the drain. Or something. (Vein? Brain? Ptomaine?)

If we are going to discuss My Fair Lady, there is also Wouldn't It Be Loverly. What I am hearing is an attraction to the idea of physics, and the reality might or might not match the idea. It is good advice to take a class or two and see how that goes before committing to a multi-year path.

 

[CrysPhys]

If we are going to discuss My Fair Lady, there is also Wouldn't It Be Loverly.

That song is also on point for my point. Eliza doesn't express some vague notion of an idyllic life in paradise. She rattles off a list of specific concrete items that would make her happy:

"All I want is a room somewhere
Far away from the cold night air
With one enormous chair
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

Lots of chocolate for me to eat
Lots of coal makin' lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
---
Someone's head restin' on my knee
Warm and tender as he can be
Who takes good care of me
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly
Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly ..."

We can then evaluate whether those items are realistic to obtain.

 

[Vanadium 50]

I'm so confused. We're allowed to discuss Alan Lerner on PF, but not Eric Lerner, right?

 

[CrysPhys]

I'm so confused. We're allowed to discuss Alan Lerner on PF, but not Eric Lerner, right?

One could argue that Alan made a big bang in his field of endeavor; whereas, Eric, by his own admission, did not. Also, poor Eliza has yet to warm herself with a plasma fusion source.