MitchAlmighty

I am studying to be a mathematician, specialising in quantum mechanics. Is there any advice you could give me starting out? I love astrophysics, it was going to be my degree but I ended up going for quantum mechanics on a 50/50!

I've got one additional question before I go to bed, do you ever feel sad, because of your study? I mean it's safe to say the average Joe focusses the majority of their life on social status and consumerism, but the kind of stuff you deal with and I will deal with in the future, understanding the vastness of our universe, the insignificance of ourselves and such. Do you ever just find that overwhelming? I've always put it down to my understanding more about the universe and what it's made of than others do. That may be confusing to read, I never did too well at English in school XD always maths and physics/Chem.

To be more precise on what exactly my question is. I love the stars, and desperately want to work in the astro field, any advice on what I should do to get there with a quantum mechanics degree would be much appreciated!

Oh my I did not expect a response that fast :o it's 3am for me (in Ireland) thank you so much! I wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavours, who knows maybe we'll even work together on one sometime!