There are a lot of problems with Chemistry. For example, the way it is taught seems very flawed. General chemistry is a general mishmash of chemistry which seems highly biased towards physical chemistry concepts, and much of what is taught in general chemistry is never used ever again..even by physical chemists.
But at the end of the day, Chemists are amazing. Here is a video (quicktime plugin probably required to watch) of a speaker made from a carbon nanotube...playing the numa numa song:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/nl802750z/suppl_file/nl802750z_si_004.qt