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How is the path for physics major
Okay so as of right now, I am in biotech and I want to switch to physics because Im so intrigued by astrophysics. However, everyone around me tells me its too hard. Physics is too hard for you, you wont find a job, you'll need to get a higher level education and it's expensive. Things along those lines. I want to try but I am not sure. So what I wanted to know was basically how hard is it to find a job, what can do you with that major? #college #career #career-counseling #higher-education #major #physics
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Kristyn "Kristy" Bales, "Sci-Manager"
Kristyn "Kristy"’s Answer
It's never too late to change your career path and go back to school to learn and follow a new passion. In any case, you'll have to take 2 exams: the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) where the test focuses on basic English (verbal section), writing (you'll write 2 passages based on prompts), and Math (basic grade school, high school, trigonometry, and algebra) and the GRE Physics Subject Test, a high level exam that tests on what you've learned in college plus more advanced concepts. One bonus, not every school requires the Physics Subject Exam and a lower score in on that exam can be explained in your personal statement on your application. In addition, with science grad schools the graduate school will pay for your education. Here, in turn for tuition, you'll either work as a teaching assistant (proctoring exams, holding office hours- here you can look up the answers together-.grading papers/exams, teaching lower level classes) or if your principal investigator (PI) can afford it, they can hire you as a research assistant where you'll work doing basic sciences (like learning anything from statistical modeling, to building parts, to handling liquid nitrogen and filling the particle detectors, to attaching cables and learning how to work the telescope) or paper research where the papers relate to the science project and you'll summarize the results for your group.
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