How did you feel when you finished ochem?

[ktran17]

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I just finished the hardest semester of my life!! Man it feels really good to be done with organic chemistry. Don't get me wrong, I genuinely enjoyed the class but man was it stressful. If anyone is interested i posted what I took this spring.

So how did you feel finishing ochem?

Ochem II (3)3 hours lecture
Ochem lab (2) 6 hours per week
physics II (3)3 hours lecture
physics lab (2) 6 hours per week
Genetics/Molecular biology + lab ) (5) 6 hours lab per week + 3 hours lecture
Chemistry Computational tools (1) 1 hour lecture
I don't recommend this schedule =/

 

[addo]

like getting wasted.... especially after taking o chem 1 and 2 during a summer session. couldnt drink for 2 and a half months

 

[Biebs]

I just finished my hardest semester of my life!! Man it feels really good to be done with organic chemistry. Don't get me wrong, I genuinely enjoyed the class but man was it stressful. If anyone is interested i posted what I took this spring.

So how did you feel finishing ochem?

Ochem II (3)3 hours lecture
Ochem lab (2) 6 hours per week
physics II (3)3 hours lecture
physics lab (2) 6 hours per week
Genetics/Molecular biology + lab ) (5) 6 hours lab per week + 3 hours lecture
Chemistry Computational tools (1) 1 hour lecture
I don't recommend this schedule =/

Amazing, so good that me and about seven other people went to the bar across campus to drink after our final. Our final was at 7:30am. I remember hearing people walking outside and screaming in excitement of how they were finished with OCHM after taking the final. It was hell, but there was something about it I found to be enjoyable. In all honesty, it was probably the best class I took in college.

 

[NickNaylor]

Ochem isn't that bad.

 

[RoboChicken]

I actually got a little teary-eyed during our last lecture. Ochem was the best.

 

[GeronimoMD]

So how did you feel finishing ochem?

Totally naked and lost. 😉

 

[zeppelinpage4]

A little relieved...a little lost. I went from doing hours of work a day to nothing. 😎

 

[Whatyousay]

I still don't understand why people get so worked up over O-chem.

Felt that way before I took it, felt that way when I was taking it, and felt that way after I was done.

 

[BigEast55]

Yeah, OChem wasn't a huge deal... now if you want a huge deal take Physical Chemistry for Chem or ChemE majors. That's a class that was incredible to finish.

 

[Ron G]

Yeah, OChem wasn't a huge deal... now if you want a huge deal take Physical Chemistry for Chem or ChemE majors. That's a class that was incredible to finish.

exactly

 

[KickStart]

I really enjoyed it and kind of wanted to become a chem major afterwards. Def. wish I had more time during the semester to really focus on the class though.

 

[zeppelinpage4]

I still don't understand why people get so worked up over O-chem.

Felt that way before I took it, felt that way when I was taking it, and felt that way after I was done.

O-Chem was great, but taking physics and 200-300 level bio with it made me eager to finish. xD

I kind of want to try advance O-chem.

 

[lisi326]

I felt awesome, 'cause I took the MCAT the day before my (6 weeks) ochem 2 final...... I was full of happiness.
And then I went to work.

 

[TribalSeeds]

Haven't taken it yet but I will probably feel like its the beginning of the beginning.

 

[Tapepsi]

like getting wasted.... especially after taking o chem 1 and 2 during a summer session. couldnt drink for 2 and a half months

+1 Story of my summer 2 years ago. It felt great to get it out of the way, but man...having a 3 hour lecture and 3 hour lab Monday-Thursday then taking an exam (and practical every other week) on Friday was enough to make me go crazy.

 

[shaggy alfresco]

 

[LoftyIdealist]

I didn't think the year-long organic chemistry sequence was thoroughly challenging, but I still enjoyed the class. Looking forward to more organic chemistry in the future, though, as I'm taking graduate-level physical organic chemistry next semester and upper-division organic compound synthesis afterward.

 

[Maeby Funke]

That's the last pre-req I need. Would you advise against taking it in the summer? The year long series is 9 weeks long, which means a midterm/final every Friday. I did the same thing with gen chem last year, but that's quite a bit different since they provide many of the formulas to you whereas O chem requires a lot of memorization.

 

[Elpenor]

Tbh ochem wasn't that bad.

It was nice to be finished with it though.

 

[BushidoBrown]

Pretty indifferent. Then again, I'm not one for melodrama.

 

[shaggy alfresco]

Well I took it in a post-bac, so it was the last undergrad class I'd have to take. So extra happy about that.

 

[NYCGuy86]

I just finished the hardest semester of my life!! Man it feels really good to be done with organic chemistry. Don't get me wrong, I genuinely enjoyed the class but man was it stressful. If anyone is interested i posted what I took this spring.

So how did you feel finishing ochem?

Ochem II (3)3 hours lecture
Ochem lab (2) 6 hours per week
physics II (3)3 hours lecture
physics lab (2) 6 hours per week
Genetics/Molecular biology + lab ) (5) 6 hours lab per week + 3 hours lecture
Chemistry Computational tools (1) 1 hour lecture
I don't recommend this schedule =/

Oh great, I'll be doing OChem I with Lab, Physics I with Lab, Analytical Chemistry I with Lab, and A&P I with Lab in the Fall. Glad to know I'm not the only crazy one here.

 

[Espadaleader]

Like I could do anything.

 

[Cerena]

I loved ochem and was such a dork about it I became an ochem TA. 😎

 

[Godric]

I was so sad ;(
I never wanted O-ChemII to end. I feel like something from my life is missing now. I have physics to look forward too in a week, session 1 !! But nothing will be the same as Orgo 🙁. I am in depression.

Every reaction was like a movie. I felt like I watched hundreds of movies during Orgo (I actually probably did, freelance ftw <3)

During the last month of OrgoII I felt like a TA- everyone kept calling me, or fb-ing me Orgo questions, or even in person. ROFL they thought I was smart in Orgo, but I was just reading the text book.

 

[Kangaroo Paw]

I'm going to go with... reservedly happy? It was great that orgo was done (I hated Orgo I and enjoyed Orgo II, probably because I only got the hang of it by the second semester), but I also knew that I wasn't going to do as well as I wanted, so only kind of happy.
Conversely, I just finished pchem (instead of offering gen chem II, my school only offers a "thoroughly" challenging pchem/inorganic chem mixture class that is conceptually much more difficult than orgo, but much more interesting/thought-provoking), and felt like for the first time, I really got chemistry. It was a cool feeling, but let's see how I actually did...

 

[kansaskid]

I didn't think ochem was that big of a deal. I didn't get perfect grades, and sure, I worked hard. But I definitely did not see it as this great big bad scary class. No more so than genetics at my college which was notoriously difficult. I actually kinda liked ochem. I mean, I am a huge nerd, so I guess that's not really saying much. But still. Being finished with this course just made me excited for biochem!

 

[Cleavername]

felt a great relief, espically when i got mah grade back.

tho now i am a math/eco major, just took calc 4 and it made orgo II look like childs play.

 

[shaggy alfresco]

Multivariate Calculus? Yea, it just requires a bit of practice, seems hard at first but you get it soon enough once you start getting used to the 'z'.

 

[eablackwell]

I felt like this:

However, it was mostly because it marked the end of a year of ft work and ft prereqs. While I won't lie and say I enjoyed ochem (other than NMRs, I adored them!), I really liked my professor. He was very engaging and really seemed to care about the students. 🙂

 

[raltima07]

Orgo wasn't as bad as everyone said it would be...just follow the electrons. My friends tried following neutrons and they failed...

 

[13132]

"Now We Are Free" by Hans Zimmer from the movie Gladiator. As I walked out of my final I listened to it and felt as though I were walking through the fields of Elysium.

 

[Cleavername]

Multivariate Calculus? Yea, it just requires a bit of practice, seems hard at first but you get it soon enough once you start getting used to the 'z'.

calc 4 at mah skool is differential calc, i am not sure if this is wut u meant. yea the massive amounts of symbolism in calc 4 is throwing me off big time.

 

[FortuneCookie]

Orgo wasn't as bad as everyone said it would be...just follow the electrons. My friends tried following neutrons and they failed...

Touche! I dont even know why they used neutrons in the first place ... better to use protons than neutrons.

 

[hiyaman]

Yeah, OChem wasn't a huge deal... now if you want a huge deal take Physical Chemistry for Chem or ChemE majors. That's a class that was incredible to finish.

But in hindsight, was Pchem really that bad?

Yeah...yeah it was.


I thought ochem was easier than physics and calc.. maybe that's why I thought pchem was hard.

 

[smileyman22336]

I just finished the hardest semester of my life!! Man it feels really good to be done with organic chemistry. Don't get me wrong, I genuinely enjoyed the class but man was it stressful. If anyone is interested i posted what I took this spring.

So how did you feel finishing ochem?

Ochem II (3)3 hours lecture
Ochem lab (2) 6 hours per week
physics II (3)3 hours lecture
physics lab (2) 6 hours per week
Genetics/Molecular biology + lab ) (5) 6 hours lab per week + 3 hours lecture
Chemistry Computational tools (1) 1 hour lecture
I don't recommend this schedule =/

Yikes I'm gonna have OCHEM II with Physics II and Genetics in fall.