<p>ihateCA: if everyone took that approach, civilization would have crumbled long ago. Through physics and calculus more than any other science, we are passing on essentially what our civilization is. If physics students today don't succeed, we won't have planes tomorrow. </p>
<p>"Why do airplanes fly? Who cares? They fly."</p>
<p>Shame on you. That has to be the worst way of thinking ever. Its like taking the ignorance is bliss, and it scares me that the intelligent population of CC could think like this. So of course, you would have no problem if you were flying in an airplane with your family, and it exploded in a fireball would you? Because why do airplanes sometimes crash? Who cares? They just do.</p>
<p>I know physics is hard. I went through these pains too. But you have to keep the big picture in your head. Everytime you learn some new theory, remember that people toiled over it for hundreds of years. Everytime you solve a problem, remember that a few problems together are what makes the world run. Don't lose hope.</p>
<p>ihateCA - finally someone else has voiced my exact reasoning. I said something along those lines to my physics teacher awhile back and he laughed in my face and said something about always needing more sociology majors. We're good friends, though. It was all in good fun.</p>
<p>thanks for the help though, helpthelazy (haha how fitting). I guess it might get better, but I'm definitely not math oriented.</p>
<p>I think it will get easier for me because I'm getting used to thinking in a logical way. I hope so. I have a C right now (the grade based on one test) and I'm definitely hoping to raise it to a B or by some miracle an A-.</p>
<p>Well, truth is, NOT everyone thinks that way, and there ARE physics students who succeed. And I'm not one of them, and I don't want to be one of them. I'm a GMIBS (Greedy Materialistic Immoral Business Student).</p>
<p>Yes, sometimes Ignorance IS bliss-especially targeted to the astroscientists or whatever screaming that asteroids are going to hit the Earth and the planet's going to blow up and that we can't do anything about it. Great. We're all going to die. We can't do anything about it. I feel hopeless. Thanks.</p>
<p>Well, physics is a class of excruciating pain, and I don't care for it much. Therefore I don't want to deal with it.</p>
<p>your physics teacher has a point in that we need physics more than say sociology because come on...who cares about sociology it's B.S.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and who cares about finance? The economy'll only fall apart if we don't have finance/econ majors.... (EXTREME SARCASM)</p>
<p>no, finance is great...no one said anything bad about finance...jeez</p>
<p>I know, I love finance. I was just being sarcastic.</p>
<p>well i thought you were lashing out at me for my comment about sociology....yeah sociology majors..bring it!</p>
<p>And I'm doing a pretty bad job at sarcasm lol</p>
<p>haha ihateCA. Learn to respect physics more. Without it, trust me, finance... sociology... all these humanities are **** when you don't have a cell phone, automated electronic press to print money, planes to fly to buisness meetings, etc. Nobody attacked humanties and buisness. That doesn't mean that you can't still learn physics. The most important part of physics is not the actual science, but the method of thinking that it teaches you, something I promise will help you a great deal in the buisness world.</p>
<p>I have to agree with my teacher.....what good comes out of sociology? Sure, you can get a average job like anyone else, but it doesn't seem to be anything special or practical.</p>
<p>Physics rocks my socks.</p>
<p>Physics is pure evil.</p>
<p>Since I suck at physics, I won't be designing airplanes, electronic presses, or cellphones. I'll leave the engineers out there to do that. DON'T TELL ME TO RESPECT PHYSICS. I have no respect for Newton, Einstein or any other physicist for that matter, and that's that.</p>
<p>My role models are entrepreneurs/businesspeople...Carnegie, JP Morgan, etc.</p>
<p>same here for role models, ihateCA....
if i was good at physics, i'm sure i would love it. however, i'm only mediocre, so i dislike it almost as much as the way i'm learning trig. i think i will die in calculus, but i have to take it to get four years' credit........aaaaaaahhh. we have computers to do the math now - the people who like math can keep making them!</p>
<p>Physics is a great subject. All of you can go get MBA's and do something boring like become investment bankers.</p>
<p>Yes, but at least I'll be a stock trader with a Wharton MBA whose salary will hit $1MM by age 30. Good luck doing that with an engineering degree. BTW, did you know even physics majors end up in investment banking? Didn't think so.</p>
<p>And that is why you fail, because you automatically associate respect with your ability to comprehend it. Another name for this is arrogance. </p>
<p>I have respect for all scientists, buisiness men, soldiers, etc. Why? Because they have gone far in their fields respectively. I will not pretend to judge them because I haven't earned that right. </p>
<p>I am happy that the world isn't filled with people who are so arrogant that they can only respect what they are good at. </p>
<p>O, and btw, many of these "physicists" such as einstein and newton developed massive branches of mathematics which without none of your economics models would run.</p>
<p>I dont understand why people would be willing to go into business JUST for the money..its senseless. Dont you want to do anything in life besides make money?</p>
<p>I'm going into business because it's NOT a hard science, and the money's an added bonus. I considered law, but I think I'd work better in a high-pressure environment.</p>
<p>Well you know what? I hate physics and that's that. OK? So I'm not going to delve any farther into physics than I absolutely have to in order to get a decent grade. I don't care why airplanes fly, how electronic presses work, OR how cellphones work, because they do, and that's as far as I'm willing to do in physics.</p>