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 mean, it was neither my favorite or least favorite subject in school? In college I took one semester of "advanced" freshman chemistry and promptly avoided the field forever, because wow am I not cut out for the lab work or the math required, but I have no ill will towards it.
That said, I did at first assume you were talking about interpersonal chemistry, because that's just where my head's at these days.
@listelian lab work is a sticking point with a lot of folks, I daresay. it doesn't help that there's maybe a bit too much emphasis on it. I mean, I _love_ the stuff, don't get me wrong, but a lot of the introductory lab work that gets taught is stuff that a lot of chemists are never going to have to do in their professional lives. and some things that get taught were more or less even when I was a high schooler, like old-fashioned qualitative inorganic analysis.
@kara_dreamer My problem was just that I wasn't finicky enough to get the expected results. Or that I wasn't willing to redo experiments enough time to get reliable results. Or something alone those lines.