OChem lab is 4 hours?!?!?

[lcr2108]

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my lab was 5 hours long and you were supposed to do everything by yourself. that really sucked lol

 

[Dianyla]

Also, don't go for the chem nerd. It seems like the obvious choice, but if you screw up, 2 words: nerd rage. I saw this guy pitch the biggest fit when his lab partner (the hot girl who had gone for the nerd) totally messed up their product. It was crazy to watch.

Nerd rage?

I'm laughing so hard I'm almost crying. I am so guilty of this. My usual strategy for picking a lab partner is to pick a quiet shy guy, instruct him to not touch anything, STFU, and get out of my way.

 

[UnlonelyRoad]

Ah, O-Chem lab. Mine was 6-hours long and man did I hate it.

I remember during the caffeine extraction lab I ended up with an orange paste. The TA's would joke that I was an alchemist, as I could turn tea into orange juice.

 

[Enoko]

Why the heck do people hate lab so much?

Labs are awesome, you are in groups with your friends playing with fire and solutions. I have absolutly loved labs from middle school all the way to graduation. I don't understand how people don't comment on having 18 hours of boring lecture but then cry when they have 2 hours of lab or whatever.

O-chem lab was the best. We had groups of 4, two groups of 2 sharing a table. It was me, my best friend, and two girls. We would have competitions to see who could get the biggest flame going, or how cold we could get our solutions to go (most surrond theirs in Ice, we surronded ours in a Ice/salt mixture. The water solution got to -13 degrees celius)

It's a social activity with friends and you play with fire and dangerous chemicals. Don't be hatin' on ochem lab!

 

[Tiktaalik]

Why the heck do people hate lab so much?

Labs are awesome, you are in groups with your friends playing with fire and solutions. I have absolutly loved labs from middle school all the way to graduation. I don't understand how people don't comment on having 18 hours of boring lecture but then cry when they have 2 hours of lab or whatever.

O-chem lab was the best. We had groups of 4, two groups of 2 sharing a table. It was me, my best friend, and two girls. We would have competitions to see who could get the biggest flame going, or how cold we could get our solutions to go (most surrond theirs in Ice, we surronded ours in a Ice/salt mixture. The water solution got to -13 degrees celius)

It's a social activity with friends and you play with fire and dangerous chemicals. Don't be hatin' on ochem lab!

I loved every lab I took except for three -
ochem, because of crappy partners and summer,
and physics I & II, because I never learned a damn thing.

 

[235788]

yeah orgo lab blows, its mainly just waiting so just bring notes to look over or prepare to hate life

 

[Tiktaalik]

Nerd rage?

I'm laughing so hard I'm almost crying. I am so guilty of this. My usual strategy for picking a lab partner is to pick a quiet shy guy, instruct him to not touch anything, STFU, and get out of my way.

It's a dangerous thing.

 

[bozeefus]

I remember one time, I broke a condenser. I had to go to the supply room and was reprimanded about how expensive it was (200 dollars they said!). They gave me a new one and within 15 minutes, I broke that one too. I never went back to the supply room; we just used my lab partner's for the rest of the semester...


Thankfully, I found out at the very end of the semester that students weren't responsible for lab equipment damages. Thank god!

 

[Tiktaalik]

I remember one time, I broke a condenser. I had to go to the supply room and was reprimanded about how expensive it was (200 dollars they said!). They gave me a new one and within 15 minutes, I broke that one too. I never went back to the supply room; we just used my lab partner's for the rest of the semester...


Thankfully, I found out at the very end of the semester that students weren't responsible for lab equipment damages. Thank god!

In inorganic, I knocked over a volumetric flask trying to get my stuff away from my partner's disaster. As "penance", my prof made me look up the price on Fisher.

Found the damn thing for $20. Oooh, big spender.

 

[thedrunkenpharm]

I went to UNC-Greensboro. My O-chem lab was on Wednesdays from 6:00PM to 10:00PM. Wednesday I affectionately referred to as Hell day.

Wednesday schedule:
9:00-9:50AM - Orgo II lecture
10:00-10:50AM - Physics II lecture
2:00-3:15PM - Microbiology lecture
3:30-5:15PM - Microbiology lab
6:00PM - 10:00PM -Orgo Lab

Every damn lab, we, my partner and I, managed to mess up and have to stay later (one time I left close to 11:30), especially when running two experiments at the same time and having to take melting points of the purified compounds.

One time, our target was the dye Methyl Orange. At the end of synthesis, we had something green and we had no idea what it was. Even our TA's were stumped and wanted to do H+ NMR on it. Our instructor just laughed and said we had green dye #12 or something (her Ph.D was in dye chemistry). Nobody worked around our hood for fear that our curse would spread.

 

[schrizto]

Why the heck do people hate lab so much?

Labs are awesome, you are in groups with your friends playing with fire and solutions. I have absolutly loved labs from middle school all the way to graduation. I don't understand how people don't comment on having 18 hours of boring lecture but then cry when they have 2 hours of lab or whatever.

O-chem lab was the best. We had groups of 4, two groups of 2 sharing a table. It was me, my best friend, and two girls. We would have competitions to see who could get the biggest flame going, or how cold we could get our solutions to go (most surrond theirs in Ice, we surronded ours in a Ice/salt mixture. The water solution got to -13 degrees celius)

It's a social activity with friends and you play with fire and dangerous chemicals. Don't be hatin' on ochem lab!

Most of us are not fortunate enough to take labs with a bunch of friends... and not to be a downer, but making a competition out of things that otherwise don't matter could distract from getting the most accurate results or be a safety hazard... you shouldn't "play" with fire or dangerous chemicals.

 

[bretticus]

You guys do realize you will probably be scrubbed in for 6-8 hour surgeries in a few years, right? You can't scratch your nose, you're being pimped some of the time, and there's often not much for you to do but stand there and suction. Then you do it again the next day (or later that night).

 

[Tiktaalik]

You guys do realize you will probably be scrubbed in for 6-8 hour surgeries in a few years, right? You can't scratch your nose, you're being pimped some of the time, and there's often not much for you to do but stand there and suction. Then you do it again the next day (or later that night).

Oh, c'mon, let us bitch in peace, Buzz Killington.

 

[bretticus]

Interestingly enough, I look exactly like that 😉

 

[FloatOn]

I don't understand why some people find orgo lab so complicated. You follow the directions and you should be outta there on time.

 

[JasonE]

we worked in pairs. 3-4 would be too much...with 2, you already start to get in each others' way at the fume hood

working in pairs... at harvard? didnt expect that one

 

[CapnCrunch]

Our labs are supposed to be 4 hours as well, but the longest lab this semester took maybe 3 and 1/2 hours. I've never once stayed over the allotted time for gen chem or ochem and I don't know anyone who has in my classes. Labs are pretty straight forward and yes, lab coats, goggles, and sometimes gloves are worn for ochem, but not physics.

 

[boaz]

In my organic lab success was in large part a measure of how fast you can do what needs to be done. If I had the option of staying an extra hour or two I'd have been glad to take it. This despite my utter dislike of organic lab.