The School/Uni Thread

[swizzlenuts]

My highest grades in Uni so far have been in Organic and Physical Chemistry.

btw, what the fuck does being good a the periodic table mean?

 

[Life Sucks]

Seems like most people are students here. I feel old. I graduated Tufts University (quite a jewhole, I must add) in 2000, and then went back to school to get my Masters a few years later. I like working better than being a student, having gone through both undergraduate and post-graduate programs.

 

[Zephyrus]

btw, what the fuck does being good a the periodic table mean?

Knowing what groups certain elements belong in, and from that knowing certain characteristics of the element. Also helps in knowing the elements' reactivities.

 

[swizzlenuts]

Ahh, okay. I thought you meant just knowing exactly where the elements are.

 

[The Ozzman]

The only thing I remember from Honors Chemistry was PV = nRT. Fuck gas laws.

Me too. That the only test where I had above a C the entire year.

 

[Zephyrus]

I must confess. Honors Chem was the only subject I ever had to cheat on tests for. I programmed formulas/other things I had to memorize into my graphing calculator. It was the only class I ever felt threatened not to pass.

 

[swizzlenuts]

I seriously don't understand you guys. Honors Chemistry is so easy. Every single type of problem is solved the exact same way.

 

[The Ozzman]

Maybe if you're a fucking genius...

 

[Zephyrus]

Or just good at math.

 

[DarkBliss]

I'm strong at math, although not in all areas equally. I sometimes help the students whom I am supervising with their final exams. Which is against regulations, obviously, but to hell with them.

 

[skeptik]

I seriously don't understand you guys. Honors Chemistry is so easy. Every single type of problem is solved the exact same way.

You're a moron.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm decent at math, but Chemistry was like Greek to me..

My dad was a Chemistry major in college, so he was upset when I almost failed it.

 

[Zephyrus]

Yeah my dad went to MIT, so he wasn't so pleased that math was my weak point.

 

[cookiecutter]

My Dad was a history major

 

[swizzlenuts]

You're a moron.

Naw, the subject is easy. Objectively. Maybe if your teacher sucked you could have read the book?

 

[The Ozzman]

Or it was a really easy honors class at your school

 

[skeptik]

Maybe if you weren't a fucking idiot and understood other people's situations you wouldn't be such a faggot? Why are you so fucking stupid in English? It's easy as hell. Suck a dick and die.

 

[swizzlenuts]

What I'm saying is that it's an easy course, so the hatred is unwarranted. I can accept a teacher making it hard, but with the right teacher, you can easily see this.

 

[skeptik]

Just because you find something easy doesn't mean it's a universal truth. Different people have different strengths, which are often tied to their interests. You actually enjoy shit like this, I don't. I enjoy literature and philosophy and politics. And I'm good at that. And I find it easy. Do you?

 

[DigToChina]

I thought honors chemistry was easy, too. Chemistry is like a math class where everything has easy to define limits, just by giving you the name of one element in a reaction or compound you're told so much about the problem, like what other elements it can bond to, it's molar mass, protons, neutrons, electrons blah blah... Every variable has a huge set of givens in chemistry.