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Physicists need to be edgier about their discipline. Like they can say “You would never understand” and “It’s my fate to carry the secrets of the world”. Maybe then the physics majors would feel better.

The moon is a lesbian. I don’t make the rules. But if I did make the rules, I’d still make the moon a lesbian.

Nothing beats the power I feel doing my physics homework on a whiteboard in the library 😈

Ohhh yesssss it's that easy 🤭

As a woman in STEM, it really bugs me how people (especially guys) will refuse to believe you if you say that you’re not brilliant in your field/subjects. We have this norm fashioned in popular media that says when a woman pops up where she doesn’t traditionally “belong,” it’s because she had to strong-arm her way in by being better than everyone else. But that’s not typically the case. Not in the contexts where it’s being assumed.

I’m an average physics student. That’s reflected in my grades and in the depth of my understanding of the material. I’ve bombed easy tests because I didn’t study enough. I usually score exactly the median average on exams. I’m not brilliant. Really. But everyone I talk to insists that I must be. After all, I’m a woman in a man’s field, right? The only way I could secure a place among the men is by proving myself their superior.

This warped norm is responsible for dissuading a lot of women and girls from pursuing STEM. They think they aren’t smart enough for it, purely because they’re not smarter than their male classmates.

Lately people on AO3 have been correcting my grammar but like… I’m a physics major… it’s a miracle I’m even literate

I used to study out of spite but now I fear all those who said I couldn't do it were right

I used to study just so I could get a deeper understanding of things but now I couldn't care less

I used to want to study now I just want to do silly little things to keep me sane

I used to dream about my masters degree now I only want to sleep and not dream

Wait, I'm pretty sure this is his discovery of Pink Floyd

I've decided to provide the tumblr sphere with more Physics Major (TM) content for no reason other than I don't want to do my mathematical physics assignment so here are my thoughts as a Third Year (TM) in this program:

1) everything is linear algebra

2) no really, everything is linear algebra

3) amusement parks are a great source for problems in lagrangian mechanics

4) lasers are cool

5) everything is also a taylor series

6) A rectangular block falling over is surprisingly complicated

7) everything is a differential equation

8) differential equations are linear algebra

9) there is not a single physics person that is okay

10) astronomy killed math and is currently dancing on its corpse

11) astronomy is linear algebra