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I think I am going to switch majors from Graphic Design to Physics

UglyCasanova

UglyCasanova

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Well I'm a graphic design major and this quarter is the first quarter we really get into the designing. I'm 1.5 years into the program, and everything before this has been general art classes and some intro design classes that dealt with mainly just designs, not actual real pieces that I would put in my portfolio.

Well after spending 2 weeks in these actual design classes making postcards and posters etc. I realize that I really do hate this sh!t. I hate designing. I've already investing a chunk of change into my Powerbook, software, printer, scanner etc. and the 1.5 years of school.

Now this wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for one thing...I'm a junior. This is my third year in college and I want to start all over. My scholarships run out next year and then it comes out of my pocket (alot of it does now anyways). I was a CS major my freshman year but partied too much and screwed myself. After dropping Calc 1 twice because I never went to class I decided that I was going to switch to graphic design.

Now I'm fairly good at graphic design, I have always been good at art, but I really really hate this sh!t. I don't want to go back to CS either because I can't say that I really care for programming all that much. Physics is the one subject I have been genuinely interested in and enjoyed learning. All I've had is high school physics but god I loved it. I should have started there in the first place, but I just went where my parents/the world thought I should go because I like computers and I'm good at art. The fact of the matter is though that I'm losing my interest in computers and I don't want to be an art major. I've wanted to switch to physics since day 1 of being an art major, but the early art classes were not so bad. Now that I am designing stuff I'm miserable.

I plan on going to graduate school afterwards as well. Anybody ever switched majors so far in the game?
 
Sure people have switched this late before, but are you really sure that physics is what you want to do? Perhaps you should sit in on a class or two before making that decision. Three strikes and you're out. 😉
 
yea, that's true....I would think carefully first. High school physics is fun, the classical physics is great to do, and the story problems were really interesting.

college physics is a bit different, just so you know. Theres the high school stuff, then you add electrcity, magnetism, optics, modern physics. basically, it all boils down to lots and lots and lots of math. If you think you can handle it, then I would go for it, but just be aware, it's not the same as high school physics. the college level is more theoretical. and also labs. remember about labs.

and to the person who posted above me. I'm a math major. can I have a job?
 
thats a big switch, i would def sit in on a couple of classes, maybe a couple low level, and one or two high level

Dogg
 
I think I am going to take one art class next quarter (I just need one to be on schedule) and Calc 1 and the Intro to Physics. Then I might take Calc 2 during the summer, and then I can start taking the regular ol Physics classes that fall. I have a bunch of free time in my schedule since I had got most of my general studies classes out of the way my freshman year so I can take the first few maths and physics classes and not really fall behind in graphic design.

I realize that it is going to be nothing but math, but in high school I used to become so engrossed in the physics problems and the math problems too for that matter. I was excited about working them and I actually enjoyed it. I haven't felt any of that in these art classes. I am getting by because it is something that I am good at, but I simply don't care at all about making pictures anymore and I HATE designing stuff.
 
I was thinking about switching from business to physics my junior year while taking Nuclear Technology. Then I realized that all the physics classes wouldn't be like that one.
 
Just remember: upper div physics is A LOT different from lower.

If you do decide to go with physics, good luck. :beer:
 
What an odd switch... my roommate in college actually made the exact opposite switch. Took him 5 years to finish, but he also got hit by a car and missed a semester. Physics is probably a decent sized major, I'm not sure if it could be done in 3 semesters.
 
I am a physics major. I do NOT like physics anymore. Maybe if you're into math you'll like it. Thank god for the astronomy double-major
 
if you like doing graphic design, but don't like the classes, that's fine. Just get through them (and skip a lot of them) and then design for a living.

 
Originally posted by: Martin
if you like doing graphic design, but don't like the classes, that's fine. Just get through them (and skip a lot of them) and then design for a living.
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That's the thing though, I hate doing graphic design.
 
1. Switching be cause you "feel like it" is an example of complete lunacy and ignorance as you should know by now that ANY major requires a lot of work. Truely, none of them are 100% "fun."

2. Do not sit in on "a few classes." Do not take "intro" course. If you want to be a damn physics major act like it. Next term, take engineering physics, which at least at my school is the same class for both. Take Calculus I, but beforwarned. I've been at a mjor university and am now at a great Community college, and BOTH have discussed calc II material, and REQUIRE calc II as a corequisite.


I realize that you have aspirations, but it would constitute a GREVIOUS mistake if you just "switched" like that. This is a situation where "thinking about it carefully before you go through with it" constitues BS and nothing more. YOu HAVE to take the REQUIRED classes and no less before you can make a legitimate and defendable decision. If you end up liking it then, you will get a nice pat on the back by me. If not, and you stick with graphic design, more power to you:thumbsup:

You have been warned.:evil:
 
I'm graduating from CS at the end of August 2005. In September I will be going to another school for physics (IF I get in... but my college GPA is 4.0 so I'm thinking I'll do okay).

It is never too late to change. While I love computers, I don't want it to be my career for the next 40 years. The main reason I'm going for physics is that I enjoy it.

But realize you must do very well in mathematics; more specifically in calculus. I have already began some calculus studies before I'm a physics undergrad. It would help if you take some time off and learn the mathematics beforehand--then your actual physics classes will be simple with that foundation (NOT learning them at the same time!)
 
Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
Originally posted by: FreshFish
I am a physics major. I do NOT like physics anymore. Maybe if you're into math you'll like it. Thank god for the astronomy double-major
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How come?
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Originally I was very interested in learning how/why things behave the way they do in nature and so on...but Ias I progressed, physics basically became math. It is basically applied math. Right now I am in E&M which is entirely based off of field theory (a brach of math created to deal with E&M)...it's interesting until you start the HW and it's just 10 pages of math....blech, I am just getting bored I think. Luckily I graduate in 2 quarters!
 
Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
Originally posted by: Martin
if you like doing graphic design, but don't like the classes, that's fine. Just get through them (and skip a lot of them) and then design for a living.
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That's the thing though, I hate doing graphic design.
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You hate doing school projects or you hate doing the designing part?

Because after school the projects normally aren't the same. I had the same 3 teachers for most of my classes and it really got me down when I realized I had started designing more to try and please them than for the sake of doing something that would be a real-life situation.

Not only that, but on school projects you have to make up the text, whereas in real life, the text is given to you. "What? You mean a company wants their marketing and PR people to do their job? I'D NEVER THINK THAT."

I swear, if I ever find myself teaching graphics classes, I will 99% of the time give the students copy to include in projects.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
Originally posted by: Martin
if you like doing graphic design, but don't like the classes, that's fine. Just get through them (and skip a lot of them) and then design for a living.
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That's the thing though, I hate doing graphic design.
Click to expand...

You hate doing school projects or you hate doing the designing part?

Because after school the projects normally aren't the same. I had the same 3 teachers for most of my classes and it really got me down when I realized I had started designing more to try and please them than for the sake of doing something that would be a real-life situation.

Not only that, but on school projects you have to make up the text, whereas in real life, the text is given to you. "What? You mean a company wants their marketing and PR people to do their job? I'D NEVER THINK THAT."

I swear, if I ever find myself teaching graphics classes, I will 99% of the time give the students copy to include in projects.
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I just hate doing the designing part in general. One of my projects is designing a poster for our student art show, and the more I work on it the more I realize I hate doing this. Same thing with a brochure that I'm working on in another class, I just simply cannot stand the design aspect of it.
 
Graphic design to physics is a big jump, but a friend of mine switched from psychology to physics, so stranger things have happened. It took him almost twice as long to graduate, but he ended up with two degrees.

If you want to get a feel for what physics classes are like, find a friend, stand very still, and have him kick you in the jimmy as hard as he can. That's a fair approximation as to what it'll be like.
 
I liked physics in high school but physics in college is much more difficult. therse a good chance you will NOT like it, theres also a good chance you will NOT excel in it

Being a physics major requires ridiculous math skills and if you can't pass Calc 1 even w/o going to class, you probably wont be good enough to be a successful physis major
 
make the switch.

i was working toward astro/areo engineering, then made the switch to physics. got a job teaching labs. then figured out that flying was for me. i miss the physics soooo much. i keep reading up on it and study on my own time.

life is too short to take even one more class in something you lothe. physics rocks! i loved me some physics. the classes can be challenging, but that only adds to the fun! lots of math? sure, but so what. mind blowing concepts that model the world around you make the work well worth it.

make the switch, the worst thing that happens is you figure out it's not for you. then you switch again. so what. learning for the sake of learning is THE reason to be in college, if you ask me. you have learned that design is not for you. act on your education.
 
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Graphic design to physics is a big jump, but a friend of mine switched from psychology to physics, so stranger things have happened. It took him almost twice as long to graduate, but he ended up with two degrees.

If you want to get a feel for what physics classes are like, find a friend, stand very still, and have him kick you in the jimmy as hard as he can. That's a fair approximation as to what it'll be like.
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<---- business to physics

Weird things happen 😛

<--- Graduating in may on time in physics &amp; japanese. Final in 8 hours. Ugh -_-
 
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