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Geremia
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I majored in physics and astronomy as an undergrad, and my interest has been monotonically waning ever since. As a college freshman I was very motivated, focused, and over-achieving; in high school I spent my summers reading about these subjects. Throughout college I worked enthusiastically on several research projects. Now, after having left a master's degree program midway, taught high school for awhile, and returned as a non-degree-seeking student studying physics, I keep thinking I am simply not trying hard enough, yet physics keeps seeming more and more to be drudgery to me. It seems like it is because it is not taught philosophically enough. Philosophy of physics in general has been interesting me more than physics itself, and I have been reading more on it than on physics proper. Does this mean I should change majors? It seems totally silly that I'm in a PhD program and wondering in what I should major as though I were an undergrad freshman... I guess I just don't understand those who can find a particular project on which to specialize and stick with it, which I have not been able to do. It also probably doesn't help that I am at the same university at which I did my undergrad, due to being able to receive a scholarship there. Has anyone else had similar intellectual/academic issues? Is it a passing phase in intellectual maturity or a red flag that one should jump ship and change majors? Thanks