I never have to take another chemistry class ever again.

[lightningandsnow]

I don't need to take chem next year, and I'm not doing anything even remotely scientific in university.

I had my grade 11 chemistry final today.

YAY! No more chemistry, ever! (I like the certain aspects of chemistry - I just hate the class.)

[Lyric]

1. I'm an English/Creative Writing major in college, and

I still have to take 7-8 credits of hard science (including at *least* one lab)...and my college is barely considered "respectable" these days, much less "good". In college, you'll have to take General Ed classes that aren't a part of your major--and if you go to a "good" college, probably more than I have to take. So no matter how unscientific your major's going to be, you're still gonna get stuck with science and math classes, just like high school. The good news is that unless you're a science major, you can choose *other* sciences instead of chemistry--I'm doing Environmental Geoscience and Biology. :)

[lightningandsnow]

2. Thanks for ruining my fun!

Kidding.

Yeah... I actually like biology and earth sciences. Actually, the only reason I took chem this year is because grade 11 chem and bio are both prerequisites for grade 12 bio.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. I'm a political science major and I got my science credits with psychology.

:thumbsup:

[snacker]

3. Good feeling, isn't it??? n/t

[Zavulon]

4. You don't know what chem hell was like.

My mother and my chemistry teacher went to high school and college together and hated each other's guts. They still do. Guess who had to pay for that in chem class?

Every quarter in my junior year I'd get straight A's except for chemistry. Strangely, on the written final (multiple choice) I got a 96, but my quarterly grades never got above a C+. Real fair grading there.

anyway, congrats on escaping chem. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Wooo!

I hated chemistry in high school as well.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Had to take it as a core class in college

to satisfy my Liberal Arts AA degree

[Juche]

8. Chemistry is fun

Some of it is at least. Organic and biochemistry are extremely fun classes. However physical chemistry sucked ass (at least thermodynamics did). Analytical and inorganic were neutral. What sucks most about chem is that 60% of your classmates are pre-med/dental/PhD/vet/Pharmacy and want to get the highest grades possible. So it is a stupid ass rat race and nobody really has fun.

in retrospect I really, really, really wish I had approached college as a way to expand my mind rather than get a degree that helps me get a job. I have a B.S. in biochemistry but wish I had either done a B.A. in biochemistry or double majored (aka BS in biochemistry as well as a BA in something like general humanities).

My point is that I took alot of chemistry in college but the classes that gave me the most life benefit and opened my mind the most in ways that'll affect me for life were lower level A&H or S&H classes. Intro to criminal justice, sociology, gender, philosophy, etc.

[cloudbase]

9. Tut, tut.