Any of you guys feel like me with chem 1A vs. 1B?

[emttim]

Alright, so I'm taking gen chem 2 right now....now don't get me wrong, I thought I loved chemistry when I took gen chem 1, that class was fun as hell and I thought a lot of the concepts were cool. Gen chem 2 on the other hand....even doing the homework problems, or any work at all for that matter for this class, is like stabbing yourself in the eye with an icepick coated in sodium hydroxide. Don't even get me started on the lab.

Anyone else feel this way, or am I the only one who hates gen chem 2 with a passion?

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[Meatwad]

Alright, so I'm taking gen chem 2 right now....now don't get me wrong, I thought I loved chemistry when I took gen chem 1, that class was fun as hell and I thought a lot of the concepts were cool. Gen chem 2 on the other hand....even doing the homework problems, or any work at all for that matter for this class, is like stabbing yourself in the eye with an icepick coated in sodium hydroxide. Don't even get me started on the lab.

Anyone else feel this way, or am I the only one who hates gen chem 2 with a passion?

I totally agree. I loved Gen Chem 1; one of the most interesting classes subject-matter-wise I'd ever taken. I'm totally slacking with Gen Chem 2, though, because thermochemistry sucks. According to Ebert, General Chem 2 gets 👎thumbdown. Siskel would agree (RIP).

 

[geneticclone]

are you talking about chem 1 in a quarter school or in a semester school. I took chem 1 over the summer and we had law of thermochemistry or w/e in it. It sucked!

 

[Meatwad]

are you talking about chem 1 in a quarter school or in a semester school. I took chem 1 over the summer and we had law of thermochemistry or w/e in it. It sucked!

Every school's different. I took it during a regular semester, but we only touched briefly on thermochemistry. It's been gone over in much more depth so far in Chem 2, though.

 

[Revenant]

Same boat. Loved gen chem 1, hated 2.

Didn't help my TA blew also.

 

[jochi1543]

Chem 2 is def worse. I also feel like Orgo 2 is worse than 1 because there's so little non-reaction stuff, but then again, it seems different schools have a different breakdown. Ours, for example, has all the spectroscopy/spectrometry in 1, so that along with the R/S stuff takes up like half the course, and there aren't that many reactions to memorize - I think there were only 60 for the final. Orgo 2 is ALL reactions and intro to biochem, though.

 

[geneticclone]

I hated every moment of it. God damn chemistry!

 

[AlexMorph]

I guess I'll be the lone dissenting voice. I loved chemistry. Guess that's why I'm a second year Chem TA. 😀

 

[jochi1543]

I guess I'll be the lone dissenting voice. I loved chemistry. Guess that's why I'm a second year Chem TA. 😀

No, I like chem overall, too. It's just the workload I hate...

 

[emttim]

No, I like chem overall, too. It's just the workload I hate...

Precisely my thoughts.

 

[AlexMorph]

For me, only orgo 1 required a fair amount of work. For some reason, gen chem, orgo 2, and p chem didn't require all that much work, relative to orgo 1.

 

[geneticclone]

I guess I'll be the lone dissenting voice. I loved chemistry. Guess that's why I'm a second year Chem TA. 😀

KILL HIM! lol Well there are crazies everywhere 😀

 

[meerkatmd]

Alright, so I'm taking gen chem 2 right now....now don't get me wrong, I thought I loved chemistry when I took gen chem 1, that class was fun as hell and I thought a lot of the concepts were cool. Gen chem 2 on the other hand....even doing the homework problems, or any work at all for that matter for this class, is like stabbing yourself in the eye with an icepick coated in sodium hydroxide. Don't even get me started on the lab.

Anyone else feel this way, or am I the only one who hates gen chem 2 with a passion?

absotively. gen chem 2 was a pain in the ass. i remember working acid/base reactions till i was blue in the face.

 

[emttim]

absotively. gen chem 2 was a pain in the ass. i remember working acid/base reactions till i was blue in the face.

Yeah, I can imagine. Right now my big pet peeve is the teacher putting what I think is an inaccurate problem on this packet of probs im supposed to work and turn in...has the chemical formula C5H10O and asks me to write out at least 5 isomers for it and has in parentheses that it's an alkene...yet an alkene is a hydrocarbon with double bonds, so that makes no sense, because the presence of an oxygen atom suggests it's an alcohol, aldehyde, or maybe a ketone, but certainly not an alkene.

I hate this crap. 😛