Switch it up, y0

[squyd]

I've decided that I want to go into economics. When trying to get into college and thinking about what I wanted to do with my life, I came to the conclusion that politics and science needed some form of unification. My personal statement was centered on that very topic.

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[theholysquare]

I don't know you, and don't ask how, but somehow I ended up on your blog and saw the phrase "uniting politics and science," and since those I are my two primary interests, I looked at your post again. I saw that you were considering studying economics, and I said "I, too, am considering studying economics." Then I saw you compare it with physics and politics majors, and I said, "I'm a physics major and politics minor." Then I saw what you wrote about General Motors and was compelled to leave a comment because those are my thoughts exactly. It isn't so much that GM needs to make thousands of lay-offs or cheap marketing deals so much as they just need to make better cars.

I chose physics because I knew that it was my last chance really to explore a science because while you can still do graduate study in law or economics or public policy with only an undergraduate degree in physics, you can't go on to get a PhD in physics without an undergraduate degree in physics. An undergrad physics degree is actually very versatile, I'm told, since it builds the problem-solving skills that are so needed in those other said social sciences. But if you know you don't want to do graduate work in the sciences, economics is a good bet.

Anyway, I hope you will forgive a stranger for intruding. Best of luck to you.

[squyd]

And their cars aren't even poor quality, I've had a chevy suburban that's like ten years old and still runs fine. It's that their cars don't fit the needs of the market right now.

I was talking to an economist at Cal today, and he's amazing and he had a degree in physics, too. According to him, all the really good economists were either math majors or physics majors at the undergrad level. So I'm now rethinking whether I want to ditch physics.

No worries, as long as strangers don't try to give me candy, they're usually alright. Luck to you as well.