Study physics but afraid you won't make it?

Heyy, I’m studying physics in the 3rd. semester, in general, perseverance is the most important, everything else will be as well, especially if you are quite good in Mathe (Hatte im Abi in Mathe written 8P and in physics written 5P and still pass through, but before that was always quite good in school: 1 in Mathe, upper level and in physics also and upper level, also with the exception of Abi).

Generally, Uni-Mathe and Physics are a completely different world than the schoolman, you actually learn what you need in university. You go to university to learn something, not to be able to do it, the most important thing is that you have an interest in it, just trust if it doesn’t fit, you can always change to something else, but don’t give up immediately before you try it:) So don’t let you demotivate people who haven’t studied it yourself! 🙂 In general, those from the older semesters always say: you can’t understand everything in physics and that’s okay, you didn’t study physics, if you weren’t even despairing and didn’t understand anything, haha, the true physics students usually have no idea, that’s part of physics studies, but iwann you understand some xD many professions but also have no idea of areas outside their research area

You don’t need any understanding of computer science and technology as long as you know how to use a laptop is enough;) The rest you learn in the university, had only one module for programming with C++ and Python, but we learned everything from the bottom up and from the lightest things. And you can still do computer science if you want it.

Generally, our studies look like this:

– Exercise sheets every week in each module that we have to give up to a specific day of the week and there we have to at least on all leaves. 50% of the total number of points to be admitted to the exam (e.g. 2-10h depending on the difficulty level, but you usually solve it quite quickly: TEAMWORK IS THE A AND O IM PHYSIKSTUDIUM) and it is ok to weep over the exercise leaves, which makes every xD

– Lectures where not everyone goes because the script and even understand sometimes is better than wasting time for the lecture, I personally usually don’t find it helpful, come better alone at home xD Gives a few good professions where I go because it’s funny, and some show so cooole experiments, our one Prof has sometimes set himself on such a rocket and is in front of the university

– There is also a tutorial for each module (subject duty), where the solutions for the exercises are shown and in which you usually have to precalculate 2x per semester

– had also a laboratory internship: there we were in the laboratory where every week in a two-group gets a new experiment you work on and there is a protocol at home (about 5-20 pages depending on the topic), my laboratory partner and I have changed each week and so it was quite relaxed, in general, the internships are fun

– exam phases: the worst gray, usually one learns completely for 3 weeks a day and has to each module ne Klausur (I’m just in there 🙁 ), but in all cases there is also a postwriting date 🙂

– Biggest tip: Make more during the semester, so when a chapter is finished, to summarize immediately, my mistake was often in the 1st and 2nd semesters that I have pushed a lot to the exam phase and then it became stressful;-; andddd concentrate especially on math (this is the hardest)

You usually have less spare time than an economic student, but my spare time is perfect because physics is fun (even if it can sometimes drive me crazy and bring me to cry xD)

In general, I can say that I find some exaggerated with the cause that physics is spoken so big. With me everyone reacts so shocked and impresses what I am studying, you feel really stupid xD The main thing is simply that you have a certain interest in it and accept that you will also be desperate and not know everything. I think about breaking it off once a day, like every physics student, especially the first two semesters are bad, but then it becomes more relaxed, you get used to it, so just try it out 🙂