Question: What did you choose a chemistry degree over Physics?

Duncan McNicholl answered on 17 Nov 2017:

When I first went to university, it was to do a course called “natural sciences”, which was basically any kind of science. You sort of picked two or three in your first year, then one or two in your second, then finished up doing just one. I had wanted to do physics, and all of the other course that I’d applied for were physics course, and so in first year I did physics and chemistry and materials science, but by the end of first year I was struggling so much with physics that I thought I just couldn’t do it, so I ended up doing chemistry, and got a masters degree in that. After a couple of years, I was thinking about being a teacher and I thought it would be cool to be able to teach physics as well as chemistry, because I’d loved physics when I was at school, so I signed up to do some physics courses with the Open University, who send you stuff to do in your spare time and then you send it back to them and they give you feedback and stuff, which means you can go to university part time even if you don’t live anywhere near a university. Those physics courses eventually turned into a physics degree, and now I’m doing a PhD in physics, so I guess I’m a good example of how you don’t need to know exactly what you want to do, because there’s always another way to get where you want.
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TL;DR
Physics was hard, so I did chemistry instead, ended up going back to physics anyway because it’s cool.