Hey! I saw your post on the Queen's community. I am just graduating from geophysics at Queen's this spring. It is not a very big option.
No one ever told me that second year geo was the hardest option...However, it is a pretty big jump from first year. There's a lot of class hours. The field methods class has 5 hour labs (which often go overtime) every week in which you're driven around the Kingston area to look at rocks in a schoolbus. I liked mineralogy, but you do need to learn to identify and know the formulas of 80 minerals. In the geophysics option, you take a mechanics physics class which is ridiculously, ridiculously hard. Other than that, the term was ok.
Geophysics has a fair bit of math and electro-mag stuff. A lot of people don't really know what they're getting in to, and so the option tends to have a lot of people switch out of it. Geo in general tends to be a fairly tight group though, and the profs care about you more than they do in other engineering options.
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No one ever told me that second year geo was the hardest option...However, it is a pretty big jump from first year. There's a lot of class hours. The field methods class has 5 hour labs (which often go overtime) every week in which you're driven around the Kingston area to look at rocks in a schoolbus. I liked mineralogy, but you do need to learn to identify and know the formulas of 80 minerals. In the geophysics option, you take a mechanics physics class which is ridiculously, ridiculously hard. Other than that, the term was ok.
Geophysics has a fair bit of math and electro-mag stuff. A lot of people don't really know what they're getting in to, and so the option tends to have a lot of people switch out of it. Geo in general tends to be a fairly tight group though, and the profs care about you more than they do in other engineering options.
If you have any questions, let me know!
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