Personally I didn't think Organic was all that bad- I go to a large school (about 30,000 students) and there is only one Organic Series. Undergrad students from Chemistry, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical & Bimolecular engineering majors all take the same series. In addition to these undergrads, graduate students (both M.S. and Ph.D.) in various engineering fields such as Polymer and Biomedical, and any Chemistry grad students who received a B or less in their ugrad O-chem class also take this class. Granted they have extra work like term papers and presentations, but they still take the same exams and are factored into the average, thus ruining any chance of a curve. To make the class worse, O1 is only offered in fall, O2 only in spring, and both are at 7:45 in the morning, so its a miracle if you can make it class everyday without the use of IV injected caffeine. Even with 250+ students in the lecture, no powepoint use (good old writing on the dry erase board), and a 17 page final (where no partial credit was awarded), I have only seen 2 people ever cry. One cried because it was her second time retaking the class and she still got a D in organic 2 so she couldn't graduate. The other cried because she was in the BS/MD program and got a C- which was gonna blow her GPA to shreds and she wouldn't get promoted to med school in 2 years, because she would have to retake it. I ended up getting a B+ both semesters in lecture, and A's both semesters in lab, which was 2 credits with its own lecture once a week. After a year (10 credits) of OChem, I'm glad its over, but in hindsight it wasn't that bad. I usually started studying for lecture exams (4 of them a semester) by studying 2 hours a night on Tuesday and Wednesday, and then studied about 5 hours on Thursday. A good hint is to bring your notes to lab with you so you can study while you're waiting on reactions to run, or make flashcards you can put in your lab drawer (we didn't have lab groups - it was all individual so you had your own hood and drawer space). You'll be fine I'm sure... if organic makes you cry, I'm afraid of the breakdown you'll have when it comes to harder material in Med school.