Warrior General Games

Originally posted by quidjibo
basic undergrad ochem 1&2
you won't have to deal with anything regarding organometallics, ligands, complex reaction cycles, and there's very little math and calculations. You're only gonna see these elements: C, N, O, H, the halogens, and occasionally S and P

take good notes, learn the nomenclature, understand free energy diagrams, learn a handful of basic elimination and substitution reactions and think spatially with molecular modelling

put in the time and ace that shit

Ochem as a 2nd language by Klein is the bomb

cannot be emphasized enough. ochem was the one and only chem class that I legitimately had to study for at least an hour, usually 2, every day, to get my A

Originally posted by seths99
generally speaking, ochem is definitely the harder class. It is basically THE weed out class for pre-med students. that being said, people who struggle with applying math will often find ochem easier, especially if they are good at sheer memorization

ha and I was going to suggest doing every problem you can get your hands on as a method of studying as opposed to just flat out reading

At Purdue, Calc I and II were worse than any chem course I took. I remember my first test in Calc I the average grade was like a 40. I think I got a 36 or somethign stupid. My professor was hardcore asian and would always give us a laughable 'oh no' whenever the entire lecture hall failed miserably.

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
ha and I was going to suggest doing every problem you can get your hands on as a method of studying as opposed to just flat out reading

both. the sheer memorization comes in when remembering reactions, reaction mechanisms, nomenclature, etc....and the best way to memorize that is do.....do millions of problems

Originally posted by seths99
cannot be emphasized enough. ochem was the one and only chem class that I legitimately had to study for at least an hour, usually 2, every day, to get my A

I agree 100%.
all chem students need to learn this ochem stuff going forward in chemistry, it's essential knowledge and you gotta know it if you want to prove you can hang with this discipline

ill be happy with a C

Originally posted by Ahrens858
ill be happy with a C



bio major?

Originally posted by seths99
bio major?

environmental science yo

Originally posted by Ahrens858
environmental science yo

and you have to take ochem? does your env sci major have a bio focus?

Originally posted by seths99
and you have to take ochem? does your env sci major have a bio focus?

I need ochem to take environmental chemistry

the major requirements here are dumb.

Originally posted by Ahrens858
I need ochem to take environmental chemistry



yeah....that's stupid.
coming from a person who has taken both environmental chemistry and soils and and aquatic chemistry...ochem is not necessary for either of those. i could see requiring analytical chem, perhaps even instrumental analysis, but def not ochem

Originally posted by seths99
yeah....that's stupid.
coming from a person who has taken both environmental chemistry and soils and and aquatic chemistry...ochem is not necessary for either of those. i could see requiring analytical chem, perhaps even instrumental analysis, but def not ochem

We have a sampling and analysis class that im taking now.

I also need Calc 2, which just pisses me off


Apparently you need calc 2 for environmental engineering and one other ecology (lol) class.
Literally 0 calc 2 shit in either of those classes.

Nobel Prize for physics goes to Higgs boson researchers

Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets.

Half a century after their original work, the new building block of nature was finally detected in 2012 at the CERN research centre's giant, underground particle-smasher near Geneva. The discovery was hailed as one of the most important in physics.

woke up this morning to the window in the back door of my house being busted and a baseball that doesn't belong to me in my basement. guess the neighbors were drunk playing baseball in the alley at like 3am or something.

when I called the cops to file a report I said to the cop:

"you're never gonna find who did this are you?"

"probably not, if you already know that why are you making a repor....(looks at me for a quick second) wife made you call didn't she?"

"yup."

you gotta love the simple things in life.