Physical Things

One of the best things about studying physics in college is that first reaction that you almost always get when people ask what you're majoring in. You say "Physics" and they say "Whoa. You're smart." Yes sir, if you want to immediately raise peoples opinions of you, walk down to the college/department office and change your major to physics. I don't think people realize that being a physics major just means you filled out a piece of paper.

But physics has it's drawbacks, too. For instance: what do you do with a degree in physics? This is, unfortunately, often the next question people ask, particularly in your last year at school. There isn't a whole lot you can do with a degree in physics, atleast not with a BS. With a Ph.D. you will either become a researcher or a professor (which is just a researcher that spends 5 hours a week teaching a class). But people who stop at a BS generally go out to work and spend their lives pretending to be engineers. After all, who pays people to tell them where a ball will land if launched with an initial velocity of 65 m/s at 17.5° above the horizon while on a 40 m cliff with a 6 m/s wind going from left to right? However, with a rare stroke of luck, there is atleast one guy out there who is a physicist. It's perhaps a little vague in meaning, but he's a physicist no less. Here, take a card.