Ok call me a psychopath but I am glad I failed chemistry last year

[JohnKleeb]

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.

[Champ]

1. Psychopath!

You should be locked up in the padded room! You're dangerous to society. :silly:

[JohnKleeb]

2. but hey, I got the best chemistry teacher in the whole country

I cant be upset about that.
Oh yeah and spelling curse words on the periodic table :).

[sir_captain]

3. Chemistry was my favorite basic science

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.

[JohnKleeb]

6. ha I would have never said it this time last year but I agree

though I like bio too.

[jpgray]

4. I preferred physics. But my chemistry teacher was also awesome (nt)

[JohnKleeb]

8. thats cool

[DrWeird]

5. Good for you.

Now take organic chemistry. It's even more interesting.

[JohnKleeb]

7. I hear terrible things about orgo chem

[DrWeird]

9. Don't believe them.

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.

[JohnKleeb]

13. Actually the person I am speaking of is a good student

and my problem last year was the teacher, the teacher this year is great.

[sir_captain]

10. Ugh

I actually had nightmares about orgo while I was taking it!

[JohnKleeb]

14. hah oh man

[strategery blunder]

11. I got my high school chem teacher to blow up an old homework assignment

(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.:)

[barackmyworld]

12. I failed Harvard chem!

And it made me become a gov major :) (I was biomedical engineering)

The major switch was the best decision of my life.

[JohnKleeb]

15. nice

really thank god I go to a big school, and I got transfered in to the class I am.

[sir_captain]

16. Chem 5/7 or Chem 10?

Taking 5/7 instead of 10 has got to be one of the best decisions I ever made. ;-)

[Jean Louise Finch]

17. hey, almost me too!

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.