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Does anyone know? Is he a chem professor? The videos are great but I was just curious
I watched his videos but who is Chad exactly?
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he can do splits too....
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i loled @ the "i'm diene" shirt.
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I just finished all the Gen Chem videos..and they were reallly good
I learned a bunch of stuff that wasnt sticking no matter how many times I re read kaplan..Lets hope it helps on the real thing 🙂
I learned a bunch of stuff that wasnt sticking no matter how many times I re read kaplan..Lets hope it helps on the real thing 🙂
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And I quote from a previous post by Justin (2thDMD)
"I know this guy.
His name is (obviously) Chad.
He (at least back in 2002-2004 when I was there) was a T.A. and tutor at Arizona State University.
He's literally the nicest guy you'll ever meet, has a great (sometimes dry) sense of humor, and is off-the-charts smart wrt OChem.
I remember he'd walk through all of the libraries, all floors, all rooms the week before/during finals and pop in on all the OChem students whom he had seen in class (and/or the tutoring center) and would answer any and all questions regarding OChem. This was an incredibly nice thing for him to do, considering the OChem class I took had hundreds of students in it, and the Professor (Ian Gould) was a brilliant professor who demanded a lot from his students. We'd have 2 hour tests that were 15++ double-sided pages, with IR identification and molecular structure drawings,...sometimes we'd have to do up to 10-step reaction mechanisms and show all arrow-pushing, lone pairs of electrons, radicals and intermediates,...multiple-step retrosynthesis problems, etc., etc. You couldn't just know that H2/Pt added H's across a double bond...that was what the "C & D" students knew. It was the hardest Science class I've ever taken, but I learned an incredible amount and can't recommend Professor Gould (or Chad) highly enough.
Back to Chad. He'd spend hours/days walking the library and helping anybody who needed it. He'd explain things 15 different ways until everybody understood the concepts....and he did it all with a smile on his face and asked nothing in return. He is definitely a role model and it's odd that I happened to see this thread today because I've been thinking about him out of the blue lately, wondering how he's doing.
A couple of things that I heard about (or from) him while I was there is that when he was going to school (I'm assuming it was at ASU) and he first took OChem, he got C's (or maybe even D's). Then, he decided, "You know what, that's not good enough for me. I'm going to learn everything I can about this subject"....and believe me, if you ever have the chance to meet him, you'll realise that he wasn't kidding. This gave me great hope because the first time I took OChem, I also got a "C" and was not happy with my (well-deserved) grade. For a minute I wondered if I'd ever grasp all the OChem concepts. Then I met Chad and thought, "Wow. This guy started off in the same boat that I'm in...and now he's killing it!...so it can definitely be done." The guy is a walking Bruice/McMurry/Wikipedia of OChem. When it comes to OChem, he is literally the smartest person I have ever met that wasn't a published/tenured professor. I (and I'm sure the thousands of students whom he's helped over the years) asked him why he didn't just join the faculty as an OChem professor, and he told me that, while he likes OChem and likes teaching students about it, that it wasn't his calling. He'd rather travel to some of the poorest countries in the world and do volunteer and missionary work. Yeah, he's that kind of incredible human being.
I also heard from numerous people that he either teaches Princeton Review, is a consultant for them, or writes some of their material (or all of the above).
Everybody who knows Chad would go to the ends of the Earth for him if he just asked, because they know that he would do the same for them without them ever having to ask.
Justin (2thDMD)"
"I know this guy.
His name is (obviously) Chad.
He (at least back in 2002-2004 when I was there) was a T.A. and tutor at Arizona State University.
He's literally the nicest guy you'll ever meet, has a great (sometimes dry) sense of humor, and is off-the-charts smart wrt OChem.
I remember he'd walk through all of the libraries, all floors, all rooms the week before/during finals and pop in on all the OChem students whom he had seen in class (and/or the tutoring center) and would answer any and all questions regarding OChem. This was an incredibly nice thing for him to do, considering the OChem class I took had hundreds of students in it, and the Professor (Ian Gould) was a brilliant professor who demanded a lot from his students. We'd have 2 hour tests that were 15++ double-sided pages, with IR identification and molecular structure drawings,...sometimes we'd have to do up to 10-step reaction mechanisms and show all arrow-pushing, lone pairs of electrons, radicals and intermediates,...multiple-step retrosynthesis problems, etc., etc. You couldn't just know that H2/Pt added H's across a double bond...that was what the "C & D" students knew. It was the hardest Science class I've ever taken, but I learned an incredible amount and can't recommend Professor Gould (or Chad) highly enough.
Back to Chad. He'd spend hours/days walking the library and helping anybody who needed it. He'd explain things 15 different ways until everybody understood the concepts....and he did it all with a smile on his face and asked nothing in return. He is definitely a role model and it's odd that I happened to see this thread today because I've been thinking about him out of the blue lately, wondering how he's doing.
A couple of things that I heard about (or from) him while I was there is that when he was going to school (I'm assuming it was at ASU) and he first took OChem, he got C's (or maybe even D's). Then, he decided, "You know what, that's not good enough for me. I'm going to learn everything I can about this subject"....and believe me, if you ever have the chance to meet him, you'll realise that he wasn't kidding. This gave me great hope because the first time I took OChem, I also got a "C" and was not happy with my (well-deserved) grade. For a minute I wondered if I'd ever grasp all the OChem concepts. Then I met Chad and thought, "Wow. This guy started off in the same boat that I'm in...and now he's killing it!...so it can definitely be done." The guy is a walking Bruice/McMurry/Wikipedia of OChem. When it comes to OChem, he is literally the smartest person I have ever met that wasn't a published/tenured professor. I (and I'm sure the thousands of students whom he's helped over the years) asked him why he didn't just join the faculty as an OChem professor, and he told me that, while he likes OChem and likes teaching students about it, that it wasn't his calling. He'd rather travel to some of the poorest countries in the world and do volunteer and missionary work. Yeah, he's that kind of incredible human being.
I also heard from numerous people that he either teaches Princeton Review, is a consultant for them, or writes some of their material (or all of the above).
Everybody who knows Chad would go to the ends of the Earth for him if he just asked, because they know that he would do the same for them without them ever having to ask.
Justin (2thDMD)"
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