I'm beginning my PhD in HEP-th. I want to go into academia. If you're able to post through the tears of laughter at my shitty choices, what should I be prepared for?
A life of sadness and hard work.
Or not. Either way, expect lots of computational physics and data analysis.
>>9143302
Death.
>>9143322
Even if I'm not doing phenomenology? I'm planning on going deep/pure theory
>>9143332
Beginning my second year on a similar field, you can definitely expect computation and going over your undergraduate courses repeatedly so that you don't make any rudimentary mistakes and make yourself look like a fucking fool in front of your peers
>>9143472
Like I'm definitely NOT doing Lattice QCD or any phenom or anything, I don't see where computational comes in
>>9144317
who is going to pay you to do anything else?