Oh, I want to ask folks here a question, in connection with a project I've been thinking about off and on the last few months. the question is...what do you think, in general, about the subject of #chemistry?
and I mean, _any_ thoughts at all. I want all the answer. think chemistry is the worst subject you had in school? let me know about it! do you think it's a dismal, second-rate science? that's cool too. if you think it's interesting chiefly because you get to set things on fire, I want to hear that as well :p
@kara_dreamer I think of Mr. Genari, my eleventh grade chemistry teacher. He was very old, looked like Ben Franklin and used an old-style overhead projector for his notes.
@srol was he any good? like, I've had a pretty cool 11th-grade chem teacher but he actually wasn't that great at teaching XD
@srol depends on whether you stayed awake in _other_ classes perhaps...
@kara_dreamer It was always a problem, but he was at a disadvantage for a few reasons. His was the first class of the day at 8:05 and by this point I had been awake since 6 to catch my bus.
And also, back then, I didn't have much confidence when it came to math and science and tended to write them off as classes I would do poorly in compared with the humanities.
@srol ah, gotcha. yeah, I'd say "bit from column A, bit from column B" there...I'm guessing he was a bit of a droner, too.
@kara_dreamer One thing I remember very clearly from the class (which was in 1999(this is important)), he was teaching us about what moles are, in the scientific sense, and then he said "We're about to celebrate a new mole-lennium."
@srol oh GOD...I swear that every high-school chem teacher has to crack at least one pun on "mole". I ought to do a podcast episode just on "mole", which is such a weird word and concept in chemistry. I find myself wondering how well most novices grasp the purpose of the "mole" as a unit, or whether maybe they think it's just some arbitrary chemistry thing that makes no sense
@kara_dreamer I'm not sure whether it was he wasn't a very good teacher or that I had undiagnosed sleep apnea at the time and was constantly falling asleep in his classes.