chemistry [Archive]

Hooahguy

04-22-2009, 20:38

I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT STAND IT!!!! WHAT A WORTHLESS SUBJECT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:furious3::furious3::furious3::furious3::whip::whip::whip::whip::whip:~:angry:~:angry:~:angry:~:angr y:

edyzmedieval

04-22-2009, 20:47

I was about to fail chemistry in the 9th grade, if I would have failed, I wouldn't be in Switzerland right now.

drone

04-22-2009, 21:07

Fe2O3 + 2Al -> 2Fe + Al2O3 + Heat

I await my visit from the DHS. ~D

Rhyfelwyr

04-22-2009, 21:57

Maybe its different in the US, but here by the time subjects get tough, you can choose which ones you do...

seireikhaan

04-22-2009, 21:59

Na, chemistry is pretty much required everywhere if you want to get to university. And university is nowadays pretty much required if you want to retire at some point in your life.

Rhyfelwyr

04-22-2009, 22:00

Hmm that stinks. Although we have a similar situation here with Maths, along with English it was the only compulsory Higher at my school. Man that was a nightmare...

||Lz3||

04-22-2009, 22:27

You weak lesser being. :jester:

Chemistry is cool, it's the closest thing you can get to "magical" transformation of substances. :grin:

Hooahguy

04-23-2009, 01:00

You weak lesser being. :jester:

Chemistry is cool, it's the closest thing you can get to "magical" transformation of substances. :grin:
it doesnt help me that my teacher is really bad at teaching.

Lord Winter

04-23-2009, 02:27

it doesnt help me that my teacher is really bad at teaching.

I feel your pain. I'm taking AP chem and we basically have to teach ourselves because our teacher isn't good at explaining concepts.

Hooahguy

04-23-2009, 02:49

yeah. whats with bad teachers teaching? i have or had at one point a bad english, math and hebrew teacher, all at some point. in fact, last year i had all 3. :no:

Thermal

04-23-2009, 03:08

I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT STAND IT!!!! WHAT A WORTHLESS SUBJECT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:furious3::furious3::furious3::furious3::whip::whip::whip::whip::whip:~:angry:~:angry:~:angry:~:angr y:

Understatement my friend, that applies to all science,including biology & physics

Beefy187

04-23-2009, 03:16

Understatement my friend, that applies to all science,including biology & physics

Chuck in maths as well.

Normally history gets to join but here in Org, we are bunch of history lovers:2thumbsup:

KarlXII

04-23-2009, 03:19

yeah. whats with bad teachers teaching? i have or had at one point a bad english, math and hebrew teacher, all at some point. in fact, last year i had all 3. :no:

I had great teachers. My german one especially.

a completely inoffensive name

04-23-2009, 03:20

Chemistry is awesome, the same people who don't understand chemistry are the same morons signing petitions banning dihydrogen monoxide.

Thermal

04-23-2009, 03:40

Chemistry is awesome, the same people who don't understand chemistry are the same morons signing petitions banning dihydrogen monoxide.

Who....I've never heard of that.....

Look you have your strange chemistry I have my :aries: lets leave it like that...

Beefy187

04-23-2009, 03:56

Chemistry is awesome, the same people who don't understand chemistry are the same morons signing petitions banning dihydrogen monoxide.

That the one which goes Quack Quack? :clown:

naut

04-23-2009, 04:09

Chemistry is awesome, we got to make thermite and fireworks, and mess with chemicals. Our teachers were crazy.

Hooahguy

04-23-2009, 12:14

Chemistry is awesome, we got to make thermite and fireworks, and mess with chemicals. Our teachers were crazy.
true, its fun blowing stuff up, but its less fun calculating the molar mass of some random element.

Hooahguy

04-23-2009, 12:15

Understatement my friend, that applies to all science,including biology & physics
I HATE THEM TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tibilicus

04-23-2009, 17:19

it doesnt help me that my teacher is really bad at teaching.

At my 6th form (equivalent to your final 2 years in the US) I've not had a proper teacher all year for philosophy. The one they gave is is crazy, literally.

You can't begin to imagine how impossible it feels to thoroughly learn Immanuel Kant, the cosmological argument and psychology of religion all by yourself..

Hooahguy

04-23-2009, 17:26

what i hate about chemistry is that i am 100% positive i will never use it in my life.

tibilicus

04-23-2009, 17:28

what i hate about chemistry is that i am 100% positive i will never use it in my life.

Yup, that most likely will be the case. I don't do maths any more but who knows, it might come in useful someday when somebody springs a trigonometry question on me..

Vuk

04-23-2009, 17:33

Chemistry...is that the new Mexican martial art everyone is raving about?

Rhyfelwyr

04-23-2009, 18:01

what i hate about chemistry is that i am 100% positive i will never use it in my life.

So its like pretty much every subject you can take at school then...

Work at it though, you need that letter on a piece of paper...

shlin28

04-23-2009, 18:48

Chemistry and the rest if the sciences are easy for me :yes: It helps that my teachers are awsome :smash: My other subjects are pretty good too... except...

Art.

:wall:

Luckily I don't have to draw a single thing ever again after my art exam in two weeks' time! YAY!

Prince Cobra

04-23-2009, 19:09

Viking

04-23-2009, 20:10

Personally, it was fun for me.

My favourite reaction. It's the first reaction I've seen in my class (wow, I was 7th grade then; more than 7 years ago). From this moment on, I started loving chemistry. There is much logic and you have to get rid of the prejudice.

2Na + 2HOH = 2NaOH + H2

Dangerous and spectacular. I have not done anything connected with chemistry for almost 4 years. I hope I have not done any mistakes. :beam:

I sat in the front of the classroom when someone in the back was doing that, or a similiar experiment. Upon leaving the classroom, I realised that I had a shard in my pocket. I believe there were stains in the ceiling, also. ~D

woad&fangs

04-23-2009, 20:31

Personally, it was fun for me.

My favourite reaction. It's the first reaction I've seen in my class (wow, I was 7th grade then; more than 7 years ago). From this moment on, I started loving chemistry. There is much logic and you have to get rid of the prejudice.

2Na + 2HOH = 2NaOH + H2

Dangerous and spectacular. I have not done anything connected with chemistry for almost 4 years. I hope I have not done any mistakes. :beam:

Ah, the Alkaline metals.:grin: I got to watch a potassium + water reaction in class. That was awsome. In fact, most demos and labs in chemistry are awsome. Molecular biology is a pretty interesting topic too.

edit: And Thermite! How could I forget thermite! :grin:

Caius

04-23-2009, 23:35

Understatement my friend, that applies to all science,including biology & physics
Like Mathematical Analisys, Algebra, Analitical Geometry and Discreet Mathematics.

Ice

04-24-2009, 02:58

I remember my 10th grade honors chem teacher telling us that you either hate chem or love it. Boy that is the truth.

It really does depend on the teacher. My 10th grade teacher made me LOVE chemistry. At one point in my high school life, I even considered making it my major in college. However, I found I hated upper the level stuff when I took AP CHEM in 11th grade. The teacher was one of the best and I scored a 5 on the AP examination, but a lot of the stuff was just plain boring to me.

Now I'm an accounting major. Funny how that works, eh?

naut

04-24-2009, 04:08

what i hate about chemistry is that i am 100% positive i will never use it in my life.
That's not why you learn that sort of stuff at school. It's all about getting your brain to work in rational and logical ways.

A Very Super Market

04-24-2009, 04:24

||Lz3||

04-24-2009, 04:41

"Little Johny was a scientist
little Johny is no more
for what he though was H20
was actually H2SO4"

:laugh4:

Cute Wolf

04-24-2009, 10:32

What... you hate chemistry... I love it...heheheh....

and you should hate THIS...
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=103&stc=1&d=1240565548

Hooahguy

04-24-2009, 12:25

That's not why you learn that sort of stuff at school. It's all about getting your brain to work in rational and logical ways.
thats :daisy:

Prince Cobra

04-24-2009, 16:47

"Little Johny was a scientist
little Johny is no more
for what he though was H20
was actually H2SO4"

:laugh4:

Funny but gloomy...

I'd like it more

"Little Johny was a scientist
little Johny is no more
for what he though was H20
was actually C2H5OH"

The rythm is slightly broken but I really do not think it will be a problem with enough quantity of the latter substance.

Cute Wolf

04-25-2009, 08:56

Both H2SO4 and C2H5OH is easily distinguishable from H2O... here is the better version from a chemist's prespective... (look your handbook... LOL):laugh4:

"Little Johny was a scientist
little Johny is no more
for what he though was H20
was actually H2O2"

Yep, H2O2 (HydrogenPeroxide) is an odorless, colourless, and nearly identical to water, except it was a powerful oxidator that could easily burn your intestines and exploding them...:laugh4:

naut

04-25-2009, 15:15

At least in Canada, there are no longer experiments in high school based on Alkali metals. Or thermite. The best I got was the standard, Zn + 2HCl => H2 + ZnCl2, and then filling a balloon with H2 and blowing it up. There was also some Magnesium burning, but since we couldn't see it..... it was boring.
Oh, it wasn't part of the curriculum. My teacher thought it would be more fun. But then again he would test what colourless solutions were by taste. :dizzy2:

Dutch_guy

04-25-2009, 20:52

Chemistry is incredibly rewarding when you manage to do it right - as in score well on a test. Probably why I never hated it, wouldn't say I loved it either as it does take some time to get a hang of. Not the easiest subject one learns.

:balloon2:

Megas Methuselah

04-26-2009, 21:53

I took it all the way up until the end of high school for no other reason than the credits. Somehow I managed to get A's. Don't ask why, as I'm not quite sure myself. I hated it.

KarlXII

04-26-2009, 22:38

thats :daisy:

He's right, sciences are supposed to make you experiment, rationalize, solve problems, and such. Unless you want your school to consist of banging rocks together to try to make fire :juggle2:, I don't think you should really complain. But that's just me.

Hooahguy

04-27-2009, 00:32

He's right, sciences are supposed to make you experiment, rationalize, solve problems, and such. Unless you want your school to consist of banging rocks together to try to make fire :juggle2:, I don't think you should really complain. But that's just me.
if we did anything you mentioned in class, id be perfectly fine with the class. but we dont. she starts teaching, we get on a tangent for about a half hour, then she tries to explain something in about 10 minutes which should take the entire class period. its like trying to finish a math test in 20 minutes that should take an hour, thats how frustrating it is.
and you know what her idea of "experiments" are? doing a bunch of math problems to see if two formulas match up, then use that as a lab grade, even though we never even went into the lab area.
at least in biology we dissected cow hearts.

Ice

04-27-2009, 03:05

at least in biology we dissected cow hearts.

Yeah bio was cool. We dissected some kind of brain (I can't recall right now) senior year.

By the way, don't let this incompetent (by the sound of it) teacher make you hate chemistry. If you have a general interest, I'd suggest you do some reading and maybe take a higher level course.