JohnKleeb
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:18 PM
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Ok call me a psychopath but I am glad I failed chemistry last year |
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Taking it again has really made me appreciate it. From knocking over snowmen, to kidnapping children, to the weird scientist with the cat fetish, the guy who played with piss, to M.C Hammer's pants, etc. I dare I say after sweraing I hated it, I like chemistry.
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:20 PM
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You should be locked up in the padded room! You're dangerous to society. :silly:
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JohnKleeb
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:21 PM
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2. but hey, I got the best chemistry teacher in the whole country |
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I cant be upset about that. Oh yeah and spelling curse words on the periodic table :).
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:25 PM
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3. Chemistry was my favorite basic science |
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in high school and college, I think. It's so fundamental, too--you really can't understand biology, let alone organc chemistry or biochemistry without a solid grounding in basic chem...good stuff.
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:28 PM
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6. ha I would have never said it this time last year but I agree |
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:26 PM
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4. I preferred physics. But my chemistry teacher was also awesome (nt) |
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:29 PM
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:26 PM
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Now take organic chemistry. It's even more interesting.
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JohnKleeb
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:28 PM
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7. I hear terrible things about orgo chem |
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:30 PM
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I just finished proctoring an O-chem exam. The only people who do badly are, literally, the people who don't come to class. It's like you were your first year of general chem. If you show an interest, you'll do just fine.
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:46 PM
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13. Actually the person I am speaking of is a good student |
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and my problem last year was the teacher, the teacher this year is great.
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:30 PM
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I actually had nightmares about orgo while I was taking it!
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:47 PM
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:43 PM
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11. I got my high school chem teacher to blow up an old homework assignment |
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(Already graded, so no, I didn't end up saying "My chem teacher blew up my homework" in another class:evilgrin:)
He was doing the hydrogen/oxygen/flame demonstration, and I got him to insert shreds of an old homework assignment into the balloon before he inflated it with flammable gasses.:D
Unfortunately, the water that formed impeded the effort to turn my homework into ash, but hey, the edges were singed:)
For those of you that are saying :wtf:, the teacher had already planned to inflate a balloon with pure hydrogen and pure oxygen, then tie a string to the ballon, light the bottom, and let it blow up. This was a demonstration to show the high flammability of both gases, and he let me insert old homework assignment into the balloon.:)
Ah, memories.:)
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:45 PM
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12. I failed Harvard chem! |
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And it made me become a gov major :) (I was biomedical engineering)
The major switch was the best decision of my life.
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:48 PM
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really thank god I go to a big school, and I got transfered in to the class I am.
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:51 PM
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Taking 5/7 instead of 10 has got to be one of the best decisions I ever made. ;-)
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Wed Dec-08-04 10:52 PM
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Being a cocky monster, I signed up for Chem 10 my freshman year and after two weeks, was just absolutely overwhelmed by the discussions of quantum mechanics with good old Herschbach (or however you spell his name), switched back to Chem 5, and proceeded to skip class pretty much every MWF I could, as I'd missed those essential two weeks.
Come finals, I had to meet with the dean, because if I didn't ACE it, I was going to fail and thereby mess up my entire plan for the environmental science and public policy program...anyway, that was the LONGEST reading period of my four years, 9am-midnight every day all day in Widener, but it paid off, and I managed to squeak through and onto Chem 7 and Chem 17. Not to mention the rather valuable lesson I learned about being a VERY little fish in a VERY big sea.
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