Physics after Engineering

Hello Friends, My name is Kunal Vyas. I am a Mechanical Engineering graduate, the year of 2018 from Mumbai. Like most of you, I too aspire to become a Physicist someday and to do that, first I had to change my field of study from Engineering to Physics. Today, when I write this post, almost a year after completing my Engineering, I would like to believe that I have been successful in changing my field. A few days ago, I got to know that I have been allotted a seat in IIT Bombay for MSc Physics. Here, I would like to tell you about my journey into Physics, how I was able to achieve what I did, and also any kind of information that will help you to do the same. Preparations : I had decided to commit a year completely to learning Physics and preparing for exams after my Engineering. I had taken JEST, JAM, and TIFR-GS in 2018 too, and had realized then that I am capable of doing well in these exams if I work hard enough. So I started in June. I talked to people and read some Quora...

        T his post is aimed at people studying in the 3-tier colleges or other state-funded colleges. I actually started out writing with engineers in mind but later generalized to any undergrad student in general (Mentioned everywhere when it's not so). In colleges like these where the students usually remain unaware of what all, they can do during their degree, and not many peers are motivated and ambitious about anything in particular. life just happens. Most faculty do the teaching in a perfunctory manner, they can't motivate students to learn nor can they recommend any good sources to learn from. More so, they themselves have little to zero knowledge on good sources of the subjects they have been teaching for a decade or two. You'll realize all these when you get to know of the environment in premier institutes like IISC and IITs. [Non- Engineers can skip this paragraph]        As opposed to what typical readers of the Blog(The frustra...

Hello friends, I am Pravesh Sharma, I have completed B.E. Mechanical from a state government-aided autonomous college (MITS Gwalior) in Gwalior Madhya Pradesh. In this post, I am writing my story of my ‘joining physics after small setbacks in academics’. My Background Story I always liked physics since my high school days. During my college years, I had an inclination towards learning the physics of the concepts covered in my engineering syllabus (which I realized later). Since the second year of my college, I thought of joining a company with a good salary or PSUs in mechanical engineering (because of peer pressure) but I didn't study seriously before end semester exams, because of which I got backlogs over backlogs and my CGPA started decreasing. At the end of the third year when my 6th-semester result came out, one devastating thing happened, I realized my CGPA was so low that it was near impossible for me to make it over first division at the end of the degree, that ...

I appeared for the I-PhD interview at IMSc,  Chennai in 2018 and got selected in the same. I had qualified for the interview through CSIR-NET exam with a rank of 122. About the interview: I was questioned in quantum mechanics, electrodynamics and mathematical physics(out of these 3 only mathematical physics was the subject proposed by me when they asked for another subject I can answer after the first 2 were done; the first two subjects they didn't give me an explicit choice on- I knew the answers to the quantum and electro questions they asked  so I just went with it- I explained in relatively more detail so I guess that took all the allotted time for these subjects anyway). First part of the interview is the panel members going over your educational background and your activity in any gap there might be since your last degree. They did this for me as well.  In this part of the interview,  I had it a little easier as I had attended a summer school at IMSc ...