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[catstrophysics]

Can someone who is not good at physics get a bachelor degree (in physics)? Do I need to be a genius to do it? Is iq 110 too low for this?

Hi!

Honestly, I'd say you can totally get a degree in physics without being "good" at physics. It's not something that comes naturally to pretty much anyone, in my opinion, and so much of doing well in a university physics program is a willingness to work and ESPECIALLY collaborate with your classmates. Most of my Mechanics and Modern lecture get together Thursday nights to do our weekly homework together so we all understand it and can help each other.

You do NOT have to be a genius. If it helps, most physics majors I know have limited-at-best common sense and even worse basic math skills. I've never gotten my IQ tested, but I'd bet you're 10000% fine. All it takes is hard work, dedication, and remembering that physics is SO interesting in its own right, and you're going into a super neat field of study.

I really hope this helped! Please reach out anytime, physics/physics and astronomy majors have to stick together :^)

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[catstrophysics]

I wanted to post a little bit of what I’ve learned in physics so far this year, partly because I’m proud of it and partly because it looks neat. This was all programmed in MATLAB, except for the cat. Pictured: Fourier Approximation of x³, hold off and hold on because hold on is rainbow, and a simple pendulum. (...and Willow standing on some homework.) 

#physics #quantum mechanics #studyblr #physicsblr #pendulum #Willow #fourier series #fourier approximation #mathematics #MATLAB #mjstudyblr

[catstrophysics]

Hii!! I'm the one who asked you about the iq test. 1-2 the results were 110 and yesterday I took another one and the results were 136... Is an online test on the internet accurate? How will I know that? That one didn't have a time limit, the exercise was choose the right picture and I also used pen and paper... Did I do something wrong?

Hi!! I've honestly only ever taken the online tests for fun, and I've never taken a proper one. BUT, my friend is a psych/education studies major, and they told me this (heavily paraphrased, it was 3AM) about IQ tests when we were talking:

Your IQ isn't testing how smart you are, it's testing how good you are at a very specific type (we say "flavor") of pattern recognition and connection. This doesn't translate well into any field in particular, least of all something as "think-y" as STEM fields. Some of the most clever, resourceful, well-spoken people you'll ever meet will have half the IQ you'd expect of them, purely because of how the test works.

My brain is not good at patterns! Really bad, annoyingly so, sometimes. My friend's brain is... very good at them. I'm in astrophysics, she's in molecular genetics, and we can outpace each other at the strangest things. But it's not at all dependent on our raw IQs.

It doesn't matter what your score on an IQ test is. What matters more is how much you're willing to work on thinking, and training yourself to ignore the voice in your head that says you're not good enough, smart enough, or, in this case, "intelligent" enough for whatever you're striving for.

A test is only as accurate at measuring something as it is at isolating that thing, and our "intelligence" as people is SO tied up in our world experience, our stress level, our current level of stimulus, if we've eaten that day, heck, for me it's tied up in if I've got a song stuck in my head or not. Try not to focus too hard on getting to a specific IQ score that lets you call yourself "good enough." I can almost promise it'll help, okay?

And anyone that tells you your IQ is too low to do something you want to do isn't someone you should care too much about the opinions of, anyways.

I really hope this helps ease your mind a little bit. When I was younger, I was almost obsessed with trying to get my mom to get my IQ "officially" tested, and it wasn't for years that her telling me she wouldn't finally registered as something good, instead of her discounting my intelligence. You're not defined by some test that claims to be able to rank every single person definitively against every single other person, and I know for a fact there's something you're the best at in the world—an IQ test would never be able to pick that out.

Take care, and here's to trusting your gut!

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[catstrophysics]

I might start keeping track of some of my physics things on this account, because I’m working on getting more consistent and organized with how I study, so blacklist the tag #mjstudyblr if you don’t want to see it :) 

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