omg i’m getting flashbacks from my org chem course. The exam regulary failed about 2/3 of students, i needed 3 attempts to pass, and i studied like stupid for it (the second attempt was sooo close to a passing grade, i was really annoyed at that).
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tetris11@feddit.uk 6 months ago
y’all need jesus
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 months ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Thermal Physics was it for me. I aced every other module, but that one I had to take twice. I still have no idea what thermal physics is, and at this point I don’t want to know.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Anything that involves statistical mechanics is just black magic. There should be a Nobel prize just for people who are able to wrap their mind around it.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 months ago
at least thermodynamics follow pretty static rules, that module was only an issue for me because it was a seminar where we had to work in groups, which i suck at.
I realized that organic chenistry you have to study until you get a feeling for how charge is distributed along a molecule to identify where and how it can react with other molecules, and what intermediarys (real or imagined) are formed, which boils down to learning as many reactions as possible. it’s a bit like learning a language with fucked up grammar.
fullsquare@awful.systems 6 months ago
i’d say it’s more important to learn mechanisms because this way you can notice these patterns of reactivity easier. at some point you’d only get new reactions that are really just pieces of other reactions you know put in a new way
fullsquare@awful.systems 6 months ago
there’s zero reason to make chart like this, it’s both barely comprehensible and touching surface level stuff only (where are palladium couplings for one)
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 months ago
I agree - it’s so busy that trying to learn from that just will lead to more confusion. The only thing this is good for is for showing the variety of organic chemistry, and it doesn’t even do a good job at it.