Jacob Abrams: Junior, Physics Major

“I would like to eventually work for the government probably the department of defense, the department of energy, something like that. My main interest lies in optics and optical engineering. I just sort of fell into it, I went to a community college and kind of explored everything and I came back to physics and realized that’s what I liked. Pretty much the next class I take is always very challenging compared to what I am doing and there are moment’s in class where I’m completely lost but the knowledge of what I can do with physics keeps me going. Seeing the future of becoming well-versed in that area of study is really fulfilling. Everyone would probably like to change the world and I’d like to do that too. Physics is an interesting field because you can develop the next thing or push the field forward … or sort of discover the next thing. I’ve always been a proponent of teaching physics to the right person, someone who is interested but might not have the opportunity to do so can make an impact.”