College Major
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sodajet
Work-life balance is hard
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Yeah, getting a major in Math or Science will give you some flexibility if you ever decide to become something like an engineer. I personally went for computer science because I decided that I wanted to become a computer engineer. As you grow, and especially as you go through college, interests change. It's natural and happens a lot. Keeping an open mind to the world will help you become whoever you want to be. Anyway, that's just my opinion.
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Mykaelochi
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Although I still have several years to go until college, I plan to major in physics. I hope to work in high energy theory, but I still can't decide which problem to work on. A year ago, I was very much wanting to work on Beyond the Standard Model physics. Early this year, it was cosmology and then now string theory looks enticing, even though I never planned to work in it. So I don't know. But the wonderful thing is that Princeton's physics program seems pretty flexible, so even though I may be in high energy physics I can also collaborate in the gravity/cosmology group or the condensed matter group, I think you get the point. Physics (specifically theoretical physics) is actually quite diverse even strictly in high energy theory, since nowadays quantum gravity is a large and perplexing problem, so high energy and gravity/cosmology sometimes blend. Anyway, that's my short story, I suppose!
Holo
Chair on Chair
Towns Folk
I'm not in college yet but I've always liked using computers sence I was like 8 and now what I do is code, take apart computers and put them back together or mix and match parts for best performance. I'm wanting something under computer sience, preferably in the hardware side. I find it really stupid that I have to take computer literacy my first year of highschool (I have to sadly because it is a prerequisite for just about every computer realated class) because it's everything that I already know and could easlly test out of, but hey, it's the United States school system, no one can help it... Back to the topic, my major will be something along the lines of computer sience/hardware. What do you all think?
Holo
Chair on Chair
Towns Folk
oh, ok. It's cool how it processes data compared to an ordinary computer with 1's and 0's, along with being able to have self learning capabilities (to some extent). I wonder how it will affect future people learning about computing, such as the day when 1's and 0's is replaced with/becomes less popular than quantum computing? How would coding change and such?
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Mykaelochi
Pokemon Master
Towns Folk
I remember reading a little bit about something called Boolean algebra, in which variables can have one of two values: true or false, labeled with 1 and 0 respectively. I read that this can be applied as a computing language. So, if there can be qubits, which can be both 0 and 1 (assuming you don't disturb it; relating to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle), would that imply that you can have something that is both true and false? Or would that mean that it is neither true or false?