When the Chem Hits the Fan....
Dear Internet,
Uh oh... Time to update... Uh, let's see. I took a chem exam and researced a project on green energy. I had a good weekend, there were some odd parts, but it was thorouly enjoyable! Seeing the friends, studying, seeing the family, studying... freaking out about that F---ING CHEMISTRY EXAM. By the way, if anyone reading this ever gets a chem exam that asks if HCLO4 is a strong acid for about 5% of you're grade... put that it is. Or you will go home and bang you're head on your desk for about 3 hours. It won't be fun. Neither will the chem exam, but there is a good reason for that: CHEM IS HELL. Yeah, people say "war is hell" but that's actually a typo penned by the famous chemist/soldier Alfred Nobel of prize fame. Bet you didn't know THAT! Anyway, in conclusion I decided to get a little chemistry inspirtation [CHEMSPERATION!] before the exam and looked up "Chem Quotes" online. To give you an idea about how much this subject is liked, here are a few examples that I found:
"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical
questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the
spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a
prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost
impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that
science."
-- Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive, 1830
*175 years later half of my chem exams are math. Makes you wonder...*
"Chemistry is all about getting lucky..."
--Robert Curl
*No SHIT*
Q:What is the most chaste organic compound?
A:Why, hexanitrosobenzene of course!
*This is apparently a "Chem Joke" if anybody gets this at all, call me @ 248.766.8617 with the answer*
It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked
in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.
--quoted in Robert L. Weber
*This is the scariest thing I have ever read in my life*
Q:And why does a white bear melt in water?
A:Because it's polar.
*smacks head and groans*
~Soylentblu[e]!
UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
-I didn't fail!! I got a 85%! *fist in air* I rule.
Uh oh... Time to update... Uh, let's see. I took a chem exam and researced a project on green energy. I had a good weekend, there were some odd parts, but it was thorouly enjoyable! Seeing the friends, studying, seeing the family, studying... freaking out about that F---ING CHEMISTRY EXAM. By the way, if anyone reading this ever gets a chem exam that asks if HCLO4 is a strong acid for about 5% of you're grade... put that it is. Or you will go home and bang you're head on your desk for about 3 hours. It won't be fun. Neither will the chem exam, but there is a good reason for that: CHEM IS HELL. Yeah, people say "war is hell" but that's actually a typo penned by the famous chemist/soldier Alfred Nobel of prize fame. Bet you didn't know THAT! Anyway, in conclusion I decided to get a little chemistry inspirtation [CHEMSPERATION!] before the exam and looked up "Chem Quotes" online. To give you an idea about how much this subject is liked, here are a few examples that I found:
"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical
questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the
spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a
prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost
impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that
science."
-- Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive, 1830
*175 years later half of my chem exams are math. Makes you wonder...*
"Chemistry is all about getting lucky..."
--Robert Curl
*No SHIT*
Q:What is the most chaste organic compound?
A:Why, hexanitrosobenzene of course!
*This is apparently a "Chem Joke" if anybody gets this at all, call me @ 248.766.8617 with the answer*
It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked
in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.
--quoted in Robert L. Weber
*This is the scariest thing I have ever read in my life*
Q:And why does a white bear melt in water?
A:Because it's polar.
*smacks head and groans*
~Soylentblu[e]!
UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
-I didn't fail!! I got a 85%! *fist in air* I rule.