Year Two(-and-a-half): The Labyrinth

So now I know that I want to switch over to physics.
My grades aren't good enough.
I don't have the prerequisite courses.
I don't even know how to make the change or who to talk to.

So after some searching on the York website (which was horrendous at the time) I figured out what courses I needed in order to even take real physics classes.

So my second year was a split between Physics and English. (This was to get full-time status for my student loans).

My favorite class this year was an Intro to Calculus course, taught by Prof. Stephen Watson. Anybody that has taken High School calculus knows about rates of change and optimization.  For some reason, this stuff captured my imagination! It turns out it was all just physics hiding under the guise of math!
Well, I had a hard time with my other math class (functions), as well as a chemistry class that I had to take.

"Wait, you're doing physics and you had a hard time with functions?!" says the reader that is good at math.

Yes, I struggled in my bridging and first year math classes. At this point in the story I'm still a really bad student. In fact, I dropped and retook the high school level physics course PHYS 1510!! Can you believe I flunked out of high school physics and I still thought it was a good idea to go into physics?!

It was that A+ in Light and Sound from my first year. I knew I was capable, I just wasn't working hard enough.
So it took me a year and a half to transition into even being able to take physics!
Don't worry. It gets better. I do learn my lesson, eventually.

Next post: first-year physics.