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POSTED BY: MsA
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STINKINGROSE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I'm some time away from lab coats, but when I get there I'll let you know

Rosie, I've been reading a book called Organic Chemistry as a Second Language. Yes, in my spare time, I'm not even in a chem class yet, they say I need more math. Anyway, not terribly far in it due to the lack of spare time but so far it's excellent, I highly recommend it. Author is David Klein.

Make sure you get through log/natural log and e before attempting Chem. General Chemistry 2 is the first place I've run into it. I'm taking College Algebra/Precalc and we didn't get to that section until last week, which was of course about four weeks too late to help me. The prof was bitching about how she's been trying to get Precalc as a prerequisite for her class for years. (She doesn't want to teach algebra, she wants to teach chemistry and it slows her down.)
So yeah, teh maths first. Or at least before you need it. Stats will help too, since there's a LOT of chewy math things involved in analyzing and interpreting your data, and computers can't do it all for you. Unfortunately.
But it would be nice.

Get friendly with your calculator while you're at it. It will be the next best thing to your eraser.

PS: MSA- please hiss at your brother for me. With flames coming out your eyes and your head spinnning around 360 if possible. Thx!

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:46 PM

I'm taking stats over the summer. Intro to chemistry requires the math I'm in now, and I'm signed up for that in the fall, though if they add a bio class in the afternoon I'll switch to that so I can get more of the math done first. As it is, though, every single bio class being offered is at the same time as my algebra and English comp classes with my favorite teachers ever, so I'm signed up for the intro to chemistry. However, even with that by the time I get to General Chem 2 I should have plenty of math under my belt, because it probably won't be until next fall.
Wheeeeeeee.

btw I <3 my calculator. And a couple of my math teachers have at least touched on logarithms, though I doubt I could dredge up that info at this point... wasn't required for the class, so we didn't spend oodles of time on them.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:08 PM

I think I've heard of that O-chem book. From reviews it appears thinking of O-chem as a second language with parts of speech and how they fit together and what the parts of speech mean can be a vary useful analogy. It might be even more efficient than memorizing the specific chemical bonds and structures.

@ thread title: Noooo, that's evil. They're coming for us with their guns!

Stats and Probabilities are FUN. :D I liked that class, it's not as detached from normal math as you might expect.

HOBBLEIT

Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:03 AM

I just have to say that all this talk of maths/chem is making my head hurt.

History all the way :D

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GEE

Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:52 PM

I have to say that all this maths/chem talk is making me jealous as my mangled noggin is still keeping me from working full time yet alone attempting to go back to studying.

Oh yes, and I'm not dead yet...

MSA

Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:31 PM

Yay for Gee!!! Alive is good.

Oh tell me this week will end...please

Rosie- sadly hissing will not help. He's an engineer now and top of his firm and it all comes so easily. Actually everything does. We call him submarine boy in our family because we swear if his plane exploded over the ocean he'd be blown clear , gently drift down because some piece of clothing just happened to arrange itself in exactly the right way and then land on a newly surfaced sub who had just deployed a rescue raft by accident.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

STINKINGROSE

Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:57 PM

The week will end. The brother is charmed. The Gee is here!

MSA

Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:20 PM

yup charmed life... once , he injured his hand requiring a tetnus shot. At the time he had no insurance. It just so happened that the day he showed up for it they were about to toss the batch and they ended up giving it to him for $10
Or the time that he failed to register early for his college classes ( which normally would require a huge fee to register) that day their computers crashed deleting the info for registration for everyone so all students had to re-register and he got all the classes he wanted and paid no fees..

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

GEE

Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:07 PM

The Gee... I feel special.

The weekend is coming, in fact it is here for me, just hope the huge project going on at work this weekend doesn't hit me with any support whilst I'm on call.

STINKINGROSE

Friday, April 22, 2011 1:20 PM

Uv COURSE The Gee is speshylz! Silly Gee.

So I've got today off. Boychild and Doctroid are out on an Adventure. (Museums beware!)

I've got a chemistry lab report (last one), chemistry "reflection paper" for my service project, math homework, math lab packet, and four subjects' worth of studying to do before Tuesday.

I'm debating if I should take this day as the Spring Break I never got, or use my time wisely and get at least some of this crap finished so I can start cramming for finals that much sooner.

Since there is no tub here, and the weather is not very enticing, I'm thinking it's going to be "get stuff done".

The morning after my last final I'm totally sleeping in until 8am. Unless something prevents it. Or I've got stuff to do.

Then I should take up residence in the bar when I'm not packing. (House not officially bought yet, still paperwork and bank appraisal and stuff to do. But I'll be gone for 5 weeks and can't pack for the move at a distance.)

Oh. Which reminds me. If I drop off the face of the earth for almost two months it's because I'll be in a place where internet service is almost nonexistent and highly limited. Plus I'll be busy from sometime before dawn to at least 10pm, "80 hour weeks are not uncommon" is how they put it and 10 PM is Noises Off time. For five weeks I do this.. late May through July 1. Before and after that I pack and move. Unless something goes dreadfully wrong with the deal. Which is the way these things usually seem to go.

"How come things never go schmooth?"

I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed between now and closing. Which will make taking notes in class very difficult.