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i love chemistry.
But not the way its taught.Its very boring.
They should teach us how things are really made.
How is glass made.Bottles.
How is gasoline refined?
etc.

take us to a refinery and show us.

I was in engineering school and I had a guest lecturer who was from
Trans Mountain pipeline company. An oil pipeline.
He was such a fascinating lecturer and I could still be sitting there listening now.
For about two hours he talked about simply putting oil in a pipeline
and all the problems involved in moving the oil from one place to another.
You could not imagine that such a lecture would be so interesting.

i agree. i remember a long time ago in a science class i had a supply teacher that taught me. I remember the way he taught was so interesting i actually felt i needed to listen. if i had this teacher for all my courses everything would be going swell!

how did you do on the test?

Sounds like you’re in some version of organic chem. I’m in the last course or my degree right now (physical chemistry in biological systems, yay!), and I will now tell you the #1 golden ticket to both doing well and not hating chemistry. Are you ready?

NEVER EVER MEMORIZE. EVER.

You may think, “Hah! I’ve done that for my test already!” but that’s not quite what I mean. There’s plain and simple WAY too much info for you to ever memorize all of it. Even if you could, you’d have zero understanding about how chemistry WORKS let alone what it MEANS. If you know how molecules interact and why, then you can figure out all the problems without ever having to memorize a formula or a set of conditions.

This won’t help for tomorrow’s test of course, but start in on it right away afterword. Go to office hours. Annoy the hell out of your professor; seriously, you should be up his nose asking questions. …if all else fails and your brain just doesn’t mesh with the way people need to think about chemistry, you’ll have shown the prof that you’re trying and thereby have earned yourself a hefty amount of pity points that’ll likely save your grade.

By the way, all this was leaned the hard way (I’m awesome…).

Haha, yeah sorry for writing you a book…..

I can understand the chemistry drama. It definitely should be taught in different ways than it is now but what can you do. I hope you ended up doing well on the test.

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