I need to decide what to study...?

[HDINTP]

So the way it is I applied for two universities to gain more time for final decision. first is combined IT-mathematics and second is Physics-mathematics. Both of them have it's pros and cons:

firstros - probably won't find better uni in my country (would get the best out of me)
- broader spectrum when you want to become a scientist (physics)

- Could study here all up to master's degree (even doctorate then)

- It's closer to where my father lives

cons - I always wanted wanted to study IT

- It is more expensive in this city


- My grounding in physics is not as strong as in other two

- I am a bit afraid of manual stuff in physics (practices)
- It is more difficult to navigate through this city

second: pros: - It is cheaper
- I am applied for IT here
- It is easier for orientation here (smaller city)
- I think I am better ready for mathematics-IT combination
- I am not expected to be manually skilled

cons - I would have to go to different city after Bachelor's degree

- It is said the school is not of good quality

- It is far from where my father lives
- It has worse conditions for science route

Also I would like to be high school teacher in the end but what IF i wanted to go for scientist career in the end then it probably would be quite difficult to go from here to the school above...?

What is your advice?

Thanks

 

[YOLOisonlyprinciple]

I havent studied physics but, heres my thoughts..

You can learn IT on your own if you ever want to, there is ample material online which covers way more than what teachers would usually cover..

Good universities= Competition,
competitiveness is key to really do anything of high quality. Once you start moving with a mediocre crowd, there will be effects on you too.

So, you can shift careers to IT anyway,, most science students tend to go to IT jobs anyway..

Btw, are you from India, and are you talking about Mumbai, idk just felt from your writing style

 

[HDINTP]

The thing about competition is a good point but I would say I am not a competitive person and also I thought that maybe when the second school is less competitive it would be easier for me to excel...? On the other hand I want to be "just a high school teacher"

And in that first school there is a possibility of educational physics-scientific field as master's degree combination but I am not sure how that one would end up in real life...?

And I am not from India.

 

[Tannhauser]

It seems that the main reason you are considering the second on is because of the IT. Why didn't you apply for IT-related stuff in the first university?

As for what you consider to have the best grounding in, I wouldn't give too much weight to that. It's a bachelors degree, so you basically learn everything from scratch.

I would disagree with YOLO that you can learn the IT stuff on your own though. Sure, you can get a little bit of knowledge, but from what I have seen, people who learn things as self-study generally suck hard at the subject. Learning it in academia imposes a certain discipline on you which I think is next to impossible to attain on your own.

 

[HDINTP]

It seems that the main reason you are considering the second on is because of the IT. Why didn't you apply for IT-related stuff in the first university?

Well at first I did not even consider to apply into first school at all but people around me (including my mother) wanted/recommended me to try and I also wanted to be especially high school teacher so I imagined what it could be like and physics seemed to be more interesting from teacher's position at high school level. Today I believe high school physics teacher has more "freedom" than IT one. And I never wanted to study IT with scientist career while in physics I was thinking about educational/scientific physics combination. Then again I am not sure how that would work in reality...

And yes I can sort of learn on my own but I always feel like I do less then I would like to/should.

In the end I believe I applied for first school because I came to the conclusion I need to push my self harder and would not gain that much satisfaction as an IT teacher...

 

[Tannhauser]

Well at first I did not even consider to apply into first school at all but people around me (including my mother) wanted/recommended me to try and I also wanted to be especially high school teacher so I imagined what it could be like and physics seemed to be more interesting from teacher's position at high school level. Today I believe high school physics teacher has more "freedom" than IT one. And I never wanted to study IT with scientist career while in physics I was thinking about educational/scientific physics combination. Then again I am not sure how that would work in reality...

And yes I can sort of learn on my own but I always feel like I do less then I would like to/should.

In the end I believe I applied for first school because I came to the conclusion I need to push my self harder and would not gain that much satisfaction as an IT teacher...

In terms of teaching it definitely seems that the physics route is going to give you more options. As far as I know, high-school level IT is a very small part of the curriculum so there will not be pure IT teachers at that level. Most of them probably teach stuff like science, mathematics and then IT on the side. Besides, physics will require knowledge of programming anyway, probably to the point were you can teach the programming stuff at high-school level.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Go to college to pay your bills later in life, and live like a college student while you're in college, so you don't have to when you're not. What you enjoy can be done in your spare time.

 

[HDINTP]

Go to college to pay your bills later in life, and live like a college student while you're in college, so you don't have to when you're not. What you enjoy can be done in your spare time.

Now that means? Because first would be probably better in terms of money but I guess money is not my number one priority. Spare time would be after college in case of school one...

 

[Pyropyro]

I suggest going for the Physics route. Flexibility is best for someone your age. Besides, judging from experience, people from a better University has a better chance of getting the job compared to someone from a lesser known one.

You can always study IT on the go through your friends and the Net. Treat it like a hobby like SpaceYeti implies.

Money looks irrelevant right now but trust me, as you go older it gets more and more important.