What motivated a switch from physics to economics for this new member?

Thread starter Amateur659
Start date Feb 13, 2022

Feb 13, 2022

Amateur659

Hello all, I'm a new member.

I'm wrapping up my undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics at a small and unremarkable state university. Early in college I was majoring in physics rather than economics, but I hated labs and was fairly lazy so I switched. I'm now trying to make up for that mistake with self-study.

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