starting ochem this semester

[tae1703]

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im starting ochem this semester. can anyone let me in on what it's like and what i need to know to do well. i havent even seen any kind of ochem b4 so it might be different for me.

 

[FutureDocDO]

It's NOT as hard as you have made it in to be. I took both organic I and II with labs during the summer and did fine (one month for each). And no I didn't take it at a CC either, not that there's anything wrong with that. If you have to know I made 3A's and one B. The B was in organic I lab. It is very doable. Don't worry about it, yet. 🙂

 

[Davina3000]

Don't stress. It is mainly a lot of memorization. And everything builds upon the early chapters, so if you are lost early on GET HELP.

 

[madrigail]

Best piece of advice I ever got about organic was to learn how the functional groups behave. If you learn the general behaviour of a functional group, it will save you lots of headaches that you will get if you try to memorize every teeny tiny reaction in your O-chem book.

Oh yeah, and don't let the person next to you in lab put phenophthalein in your diet coke....DIRE consequences ensue 😀

 

[OldOgre]

Off topic, but all I can say to that is ROFLMAO!!!!

I hope it didn't happen to you 🙁

 

[stoic]

Learn how to push electrons and you're golden. Seriously. Know what the electrons on functional groups like to do and you can pretty much figure out any orgo problem.

 

[dave613]

Thanks guys, this was really good advice!