Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.
My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been admitted to Rice University, I found that I enjoyed the courses and the elation of success and graduated with honors in physics. I did a senior thesis with C.F. Squire, building a regulator for a magnet for use in low-temperature physics.
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.
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