{"id":885,"date":"2008-10-10T19:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=885"},"modified":"2008-10-10T19:30:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T00:30:43","slug":"why-you-should-major-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/885","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Major in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assuming you haven’t already majored in something. And no, I don’t get a referral commission, as far as you know.<\/p>\n

Letter to High School Students: What to Major in<\/a> over at Dot Physics<\/p>\n

Do it because it isn’t easy.<\/p>\n

It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.<\/em> Jimmy Dugan’s other piece of good advice.<\/p>\n

Seriously \u2014 doing what’s easy isn’t really going to prepare you to do anything beyond college. Don’t take the easy path, take a challenging (though not impossible) one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assuming you haven’t already majored in something. And no, I don’t get a referral commission, as far as you know. Letter to High School Students: What to Major in over at Dot Physics Do it because it isn’t easy. It’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[73,136],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics","tag-adopt-a-physicst","tag-career-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}