![]() Unless you are in the wrong job, or just not a good person, you care about the people in your room. One is the emotionally challenging part, which is just seeing my students go through hardships, or suffer tragedies, and not really be able to do much to help them. Applegate: “There’s two kind of spectrums of challenging. Question: So what are some of the most challenging aspects of being a teacher and then on the latter? What are some of the most rewarding? It’s like there’s a lot more freedom in the course in the standards where you can do application things than there is in math.” So I like physics a lot more than math because there’s a lot more application that you can do. Yes, it’s just practicing the same thing over and over and over again. But I also really like math, because math is a puzzle. It’s hard, and I feel like I have a pretty good handle on how to make it more approachable. That’s what I liked, and so it made me really like physics and because it explains everything. Sometimes it doesn’t click and it took me 1-8 years for even the basic stuff to really make sense. So that always kind of rang in the back of my head and I tried to tell the kids that sometimes this is a really tough subject matter. But it all didn’t really kind of click for me until I was in grad school, because my grad school was all physics based. When I went to college I got an A in my modern physics class because it was cool. I got a D minus in my AP Physics class, I got C’s and B’s in my university Physics I, II, and III courses. ![]() Applegate: “I’m a big physics nerd, and part of it is that when I was in high school, I was really bad at it. Question: “ Have you gained a preference towards one subject over other subjects that you teach and is there a reason why?” I liked working with younger people and so it just kind of fit.” I’ve done some teaching and some tutoring and I enjoyed it. I started to explore teaching as an option, which kind of worked out for me because I’d done some of that in college. I quit my job in 2012 and then a recession hit so I couldn’t find another one. I wasn’t really happy there doing that work so I wanted to branch out. So I was an acoustic engineer with the Applied Research Lab at Penn State where I worked on submarines and other kinds of sonar, underwater applications. Applegate: “I actually came here from engineering. Question: “ Did you ever consider any other careers outside of teaching? If so, what caused you to take this route instead?” Chris Applegate Advanced Physics and Engineering II ![]()
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