You're in third year!

[poofy_puff]

Organic Chem is hard, especially if you're like me and don't really like the math so much.

Two things. 1.) Are you talking about Organic? There's no math outside of some lab stuff like calculating theoretical yields. 2.) You got homework? Wtf? I got three tests and a final. No homework in the majority of my chem classes. One bad test and BAM, there goes your grade.

The reason people find Organic Chem so "hard" is because you have to remember lots of reactions and think in a way that you usually don't have to do in day-to-day tasks.

Organic Chem has very little "math", except when it comes to counting the number of carbons or hydrogens on your fingers. Theoretical yields involve basic multiplication and division. They even let you use calculators. They hardly ever ask this question on an exam because you would have covered that in General Chem. If you can add, subtract, multiply and divide, that's pretty much all the math you need for organic chemistry. They even let you use a calculator all the time.


Greenday, I got TONS of homework in organic, but as someone else said, it was "optional" and you were screwed if you didn't do the "optional" stuff.

[Shalom]

I only double failed once, in the first half of my school (basic electronics portion)

I actually bought the textbook for that, even though I'm not and never have been in the Navy. I'd found a copy of it in the library (Basic Electronics Course 1 by NavBuPers, reprinted by Dover) as a kid, and found it fascinating reading, even though the two chapters on tuned circuits were miles over my head (the concept of "imaginary numbers" not being something I had any background to comprehend, never mind calculus). I just skipped those the first time around.

Only quibble I have is that whoever wrote that manual didn't believe in "conventional current", so they had current flow defined as the direction the electrons were moving, thus in a vacuum tube the current flows from the cathode to the anode. This makes sense. The rest of the world has it going the other way ('cos electrons have a negative charge, dont'cha know). This caused endless confusion when I tried reading other texts, schematics etc, given that my basic understanding of the subject came from this book. Even the symbol for a transistor has the "arrow" pointing in the direction of conventional current, meaning the electrons go the other way. (The book said that the arrow was the direction of "hole current", meaning the electrons go that way, so the holes they leave behind in the germanium lattice go this way...)

The reproductions of warning signs in the first chapter were rather fun for a civilian to read. E.g. don't go in the path of stack gases without a respirator, don't let the swinging radar antenna knock you over, etc. You don't see many of those signs around here.