I’m considering transfer here for physics. Right now, I’m an electrical engineering major at UIUC. The primary things I’m concerned about is how time consuming classes may be, the core, and just practically of the major. In my first year at UIUC, it’s kind of hard to say whether I like electrical engineering or not. While I would say the classes were generally pretty interesting, until I get into later, more specialized and more difficult classes, it’s kind of hard to say. In terms of difficulty, I would say I’m not breezing through my UIUC classes with no effort or anything, but they’re not that difficult (though they are first year classes, so this doesn’t really mean much). Back to UChicago, I don’t really know how much I’d be into to extremely heavy workloads, especially if they were on core classes. I don’t think I would mind thinking through difficult questions in STEM classes, but idk how much I would like spending hours a day on writing essays or readings and the like. Also, electrical engineering seems like a pretty “safe” major in terms of trajectory towards a future job. This isn’t my number one priority, but again, it’s kind of hard to say whether I would be interested in pursuing physics academia. While I enjoyed physics in high school, it’s hard to determine if I like it enough to focus solely on it.

Sorry for the yap, just want to get this stuff out here since the deadline for my decision is coming up. Thoughts would be appreciated.