chemistry

[naut]

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]

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.

[||Lz3||]

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

[Cute Wolf]

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

and you should hate THIS...

[Hooahguy]

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

[Prince Cobra]

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

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]

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

"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...

[naut]

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.

[Dutch_guy]

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.

[Megas Methuselah]

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]

thats

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 , I don't think you should really complain. But that's just me.

[Hooahguy]

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 , 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]

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.

[Hooahguy]

ooo and on the last class in bio we dissected a fetal pig. THAT was fun!