Orgo

[shanghaichick20]

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So what is it that makes orgo so incredibly he**ish?

 

[YML]

stupid pre-meds who talk it up

 

[medtechv79]

All that damn studying u have to do for it!

 

[theprizefighter]

Nothing. "Orgo", as you call it, seems intimidating because it benefits from too much hype. It's like so many things at all levels of academics. When you were in high school, how many people were trembling in fear saying, "Ooooooh, advance calculus is soooooooooooo hard." Now in college, everyone says how "terrible" organic chemistry is, like there's no tomorrow. And when you are in medical school, you're told how hellish anatomy, USMLE, etc is. With that much terror and hardship, you'd think you'd be dead by the time you got to residency. I think it's blown way out of proportion. Is pre-med easy? No. Is it possible to pull off? Hell yes. Ditto for medical school residency, practice and life in general.

 

[shanghaichick20]

So is it more of the "you gotta study till you hallucinate" type of thing or the "you gotta have the IQ of Einstein and Newton together" type of thing?

 

[theprizefighter]

shanghaichick20 - "So is it more of the "you gotta study till you hallucinate" type of thing or the "you gotta have the IQ of Einstein and Newton together" type of thing?"

You have to study hard but certainly not until you hallucinate. I can't believe all this fear bloated crap they're heaping on you guys.

 

[shanghaichick20]

You have to study hard but certainly not until you hallucinate. I can't believe all this fear bloated crap they're heaping on you guys.

yay. that makes me feel better
😀

 

[TTSD]

Nothing is hard about organic except it's boring as hell, pointless, mindless dribble.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Organic ain't bad at all, its Physical Chem that pisses me off. In Physical Chem, you gotta study until you hallucinate and you gotta have the IQ of Einstein and Newton together, just to get a B.

 

[Assembler]

Organic ain't bad at all, its Physical Chem that pisses me off. In Physical Chem, you gotta study until you hallucinate and you gotta have the IQ of Einstein and Newton together, just to get a B.

This would be a prime example of why I switched majors...

Not that mine got any easier, but I heard the WORST complaints about having to take P-chem.

 

[soreed]

by the way, to abbreviate 'organic chemistry', since it seems you're using the beginning of the first word and ending of the last word, it would be better if you called it 'orgy' instead...

 

[Pinkertinkle]

This would be a prime example of why I switched majors...

Not that mine got any easier, but I heard the WORST complaints about having to take P-chem.

I should have avoided it like the plague, alas were only foresight as clear as hind sight.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

by the way, to abbreviate 'organic chemistry', since it seems your using the beginning of the first word and last ending of the last word, it would be better if you called it 'orgy' instead...

 

[medtechv79]

by the way, to abbreviate 'organic chemistry', since it seems you're using the beginning of the first word and ending of the last word, it would be better if you called it 'orgy' instead...

I agree very funny!

 

[dmoney41]

So is it more of the "you gotta study till you hallucinate" type of thing or the "you gotta have the IQ of Einstein and Newton together" type of thing?

I only crammed the night before on all exams for both semesters, attended lecture about 75% of the time first semester and 0% of the time second semester and got an A and a B. It's really no harder than any physics or math class, and can be fun if you like puzzle solving type stuff. Second semester is suckier because there's so much more lame memorization, but easier if you're persistant enough to keep up with it. If you're going to slack make sure it's second semester because the most important thing you develop out of organic 1 is the ability to look at some reactants and feel what's going to happen based on electrophilicity, solvents, blah blah, etc. If you don't have that coming out of organic 1 organic 2 will be painful for you.

PS: If you ever talk to your orgo professor and call it anything but orgo (especially "orgy") he will immediately smite you and you will fail the course.

 

[Peter Griffin]

I thought orgy (that flows much better) was difficult, but I had a difficult prof. The standardized exam at the end was really easy. I would give the class a 6/10 on the horrible scale.

 

[Peter Griffin]

And just out of curiosity, does hellish really need to be edited. We're all grown-ups here.

 

[dmoney41]

The OP is maude flanders