Oh, that was just a terminology confusion—to me, what ‘astrophysics’ brings immediately to mind is ‘something kids think is cool’ + ‘writing obscure theoretical math and wrangling for telescope time all day’. I mean, if obscure theoretical math is your thing then more power to ya, but it seems likely that the set ‘people who think astrophysics sounds awesome’ is much larger than the set ‘people who think astrophysics is actually awesome’. But you went on to clarify you meant something like aerospace engineering, which—while it actually is rocket science—is perhaps ironically a lot less pie-in-the-sky than I was fearing.
TL;DR : Oh ok, that makes sense.
(And I am nowhere near old enough to call you ‘kid’.)
Oh, that was just a terminology confusion—to me, what ‘astrophysics’ brings immediately to mind is ‘something kids think is cool’ + ‘writing obscure theoretical math and wrangling for telescope time all day’. I mean, if obscure theoretical math is your thing then more power to ya, but it seems likely that the set ‘people who think astrophysics sounds awesome’ is much larger than the set ‘people who think astrophysics is actually awesome’. But you went on to clarify you meant something like aerospace engineering, which—while it actually is rocket science—is perhaps ironically a lot less pie-in-the-sky than I was fearing.
TL;DR : Oh ok, that makes sense.
(And I am nowhere near old enough to call you ‘kid’.)