Happiness in little things

[cozycleo]

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I'm sure some of you chemistry veterans can understand my happiness here.

I got a B in Chem I! 😀

Considering it's the first serious chem course I've taken in 10 years, I am ridiculously happy. I worked my butt off for that class.

I know so many of you are so much further ahead on this than I am, but this gives me faith to keep going. I need these small victories to stay motivated. 🙂

 

[guppy73]

As another non-trad who'd had almost 10 years between classes, congrats! Feels great, doesn't it? Now go out & celebrate for a job well done!

Best of luck in future coursework & keep us posted!!!

 

[Caninerepro]

Woo Hoo! Welcome back to the world of academia, and way to go kicking butt on your first round of classes after your "vacation"!

I am a serious non-trad as well, and well remember that first semester back in the grind -- in my case I took chem 2, not just the first semester, so I restarted mid-stride. It is funny how quickly it all comes back (at least the study habits), and maybe now even more seriously than you took it the first time. After all, you now know all too well how scary it is out there in the Real World! 😱 That was my motivation, and it was all uphill from there. We all look forward to your continued success stories. It truely is the small victories (like a B in Human Neuroanatomy this semester for me) that mean the most.

 

[sumstorm]

I completly understand! Congrats! I started back with Biochem. Thank goodness I did well...I think I may have opted out of applying if I hadn't.

Great job!

 

[twelvetigers]

Hey, that's better than I did! Congrats! 😀

 

[mooturkey]

Congratulations! Job well done! I can definitely appreciate your enthusiasm... I myself am a hater of chemistry (as that is the one thing in life I find most challenging). But hey... I'm not going to let it beat me either. I am registered to take both Organic Chemistry courses within the next year... a very daunting task as it's been at least 6 years since my last Chemistry class! Again, congrats and keep up the good work.

 

[Willowhand]

Congratulations! That's quite an accomplishment with so many years between.

I took my Organic II final on Monday. We haven't gotten our individual grades back yet, but our prof just sent a message out saying that the class average was a 56 😱. I find the subject really fascinating -and even fun- but sometimes when I'm taking the exams I feel like my skull has been drilled open and and there are microscopic poltergeists playing jump rope with my neurons. Or maybe it's all the vapors we've been breathing from our concoctions in lab .

 

[Truth74]

Congratulations! That's quite an accomplishment with so many years between.

I took my Organic II final on Monday. We haven't gotten our individual grades back yet, but our prof just sent a message out saying that the class average was a 56 😱.

That sounds like Orgo I, my first semester back. The guy was a toatl academic and thought we knew everything he did. For all 4 exams, the average was something awful, like 40 something percent. The last exam wasn't that bad, though. I still have nightmares about mechanisms.

Congratulations on the good start.

 

[IHeartGoldens]

Congrats on the B! It's well earned.

I just finished my physics final and think I got an A- or an A in the class. I had set myself to be happy with a B, and thrilled with a B+!

Everyone who is still taking finals (like me) , good luck!
To those that have finished the semester in one piece, congrats!

 

[Caninerepro]

Ug physics -- my nemesis. 10 credits of B+, by 3 and 4 points/semester respectively. Math is my downfall, and my GPA killer. 🙁 Don't even mention calculus in my presence.👎

 

[TurtleLover]

Yay! Congrats! I can't completely relate, but chemistry is definitely one of those classes I don't like to take and that's amazing you did so well!

I'm trying to decide if I should take Biochem 2 because U Tennessee requires it and they have a good zoo/exotics program (but I barely got a B in Biochem 1 a year and a half ago!).

 

[Highlsnds3]

TN only requires 4 credit hours of boichem (independent of lab), so no need to take boichem 2 if you have biochem 1.

 

[dyachei]

TN only requires 4 credit hours of boichem (independent of lab), so no need to take boichem 2 if you have biochem 1.

This is not true. You have to take a complete biochem course. If that means that your school has biochem 1 and 2, you have to take both. However, if you take a course that completes all of biochem in one semester - there's one at MTSU called intro to biochem, for instance - you only need to take that course.

 

[eventualeventer]

Congrats! Sometimes it's enough to survive relatively unscathed. 😳

My nemesis (or one of them ) is cell bio -- we have a mutual hatred -- so I was happy to get a B in the upper level cell bio class this semester. The lab was torture -- I kid you not, one week out of eleven or twelve actually worked. As for the rest, it was always some reagent gone bad, or the gels didn't work, or the PCR didn't amplify, or the fluorescence microscope decided not to work. Talk about a nightmare!