>>13965432As a physics major from 25 years ago, if I were smart enough to build a time machine I would tell my younger self (among many other things) that all you really do for the second half of the major is prove in excruciatingly boring detail all that you learned in the foundational physics classes that you shared with the engineering students, whereas the engineering students took all that knowledge from the foundational classes and applied it in ways significantly more interesting than the path that led to me pounding my head against a Griffiths' textbook (consider yourself lucky if you never understand this reference). I echo the solid advice from others here: if the math doesn't come to you very easily, don't waste your time majoring in physics, because the second half of the undergraduate and beyond is incredibly math intensive. I can't speak to the "applied physics" version of the major, but I have a hard time believing that it is more marketable than an engineering degree (let alone a professional engineering license).
