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kdog3683
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States916 Posts
December 11 2009 06:54 GMT
#1
I think it's the only type of mental excercise that pushes you just enough to make you feel off balance. It's like trying to draw a picture in your head. At some point, you are adding objects to your picture and previous objects/details start fading. And you are trying to hold on to those fading objects and it's like the same feeling.

And then you'll be taking a practice question that incorporates 4 topics together and you go 'lawl wtf really?".

But at heart ochem I is pretty fundamentally simple.

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Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
December 11 2009 06:57 GMT
#2
what? i like ochem too.

1. Choose two organic compounds featured in two separate news
articles that have appeared in 2009 (not chemistry journals).
2. Attach a copy of each news article.
3. For each compound, write the name of the compound as provided in
the news, and DRAW the correct chemical structure. You may not
use a computer-generated structure.
4. List a total of five different functional groups present in one or the
other compound.
5. In a few sentences summarize the characteristics of the compound
that made it newsworthy.

help me find some articles brah
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
December 11 2009 06:59 GMT
#3
wtf kentor talkin shit. stop tha tjibba jabba. stay in school!
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sn2 reaction ftw
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10835 Posts
December 11 2009 07:00 GMT
#4
lol kentor what kind of assignment is that
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LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10835 Posts
December 11 2009 07:01 GMT
#5
btw ochem was fun until my 2nd semester professor decided he loved putting in synthesis questions that involved nitrogen in every single exam

god i hate nitrogen
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kdog3683
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States916 Posts
December 11 2009 07:01 GMT
#6
On December 11 2009 15:57 Kentor wrote:
what? i like ochem too.

1. Choose two organic compounds featured in two separate news
articles that have appeared in 2009 (not chemistry journals).
2. Attach a copy of each news article.
3. For each compound, write the name of the compound as provided in
the news, and DRAW the correct chemical structure. You may not
use a computer-generated structure.
4. List a total of five different functional groups present in one or the
other compound.
5. In a few sentences summarize the characteristics of the compound
that made it newsworthy.

help me find some articles brah


You are kind of disgusting.
Multiply your efforts.
Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
December 11 2009 07:04 GMT
#7
it's a free 20 point assignment :D

i have an ochem final soon. need to study synthesis man
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
December 11 2009 07:06 GMT
#8
Gah...I hate sigmatropic rearrangments. I can never see them right away.
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
December 11 2009 07:13 GMT
#9
meeple denied "WATER LOL NO CHEMISTRY WATER REACTION! LOL"
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-11 07:20:36
December 11 2009 07:14 GMT
#10
On December 11 2009 16:13 Steelflight-Rx wrote:
meeple denied "WATER LOL NO CHEMISTRY WATER REACTION! LOL"


Huh? If this is about the whole exloding gum stuff... you're kinda taking it out of context. There are several reasons why explosives work less efficiently in water.
- Water is inert
- Water acts as a solvent to many things, potentially ruining the composition of the explosive

I won't dredge this stuff up anymore, but feel free to PM me.
mrmin123 *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Korea (South)2971 Posts
December 11 2009 07:41 GMT
#11
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Translator태양은 묘지위에 붉게 떠오르고 / 한낮에 찌는 더위는 나의 시련 일찌라!
snorlax
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States755 Posts
December 11 2009 07:44 GMT
#12
Maybe Im just being retarted and sounding the word out wrong and thus not drawing the connection in my mind, maybe im just an unoligable person, or maybe this is obscure but what the fuck is ochem
LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10835 Posts
December 11 2009 07:45 GMT
#13
organic chemistry
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Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-11 07:46:56
December 11 2009 07:46 GMT
#14
On December 11 2009 16:01 LosingID8 wrote:
btw ochem was fun until my 2nd semester professor decided he loved putting in synthesis questions that involved nitrogen in every single exam

god i hate nitrogen

Did you get backside attacked?
snorlax
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States755 Posts
December 11 2009 07:55 GMT
#15
O wow ya just didn't get the shortened version =] ya I guess its decent
Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
December 11 2009 07:57 GMT
#16
o hi guys social science major here
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cosiant
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada616 Posts
December 11 2009 08:07 GMT
#17
Grr, I have finals in organic chemistry 2 ... in about 7 hours.
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Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
December 11 2009 08:21 GMT
#18
Fuck OChem, it's all about Orgo.

OChem sucks, Orgo rocks.
God Bless
shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
December 11 2009 08:45 GMT
#19
I make like a nucleophile in an SN2 reaction and attack from the rear, no homolysis.
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BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
December 11 2009 14:55 GMT
#20
Ketones and Aldehydes there are many, but your my one and only Carboxylic acid.
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
gchan
Profile Joined October 2007
United States654 Posts
December 11 2009 18:41 GMT
#21
Ugh I hated ochem because my professor was also the person who wrote the book. You'd think that that would make it easy, but he treated the book as mandatory material; anything he taught in lecture was additional material we had to learn. There just isn't enough time in one semester to cover that much.

Also, oddly enough, unlike most people, I really enjoyed physical chemistry over organic chemistry. I think part of that had to do with the fact that I had a really good professor and the fact that physical chemistry puts a lot of other parts of chemistry into perspective.
eshlow
Profile Joined June 2008
United States5210 Posts
December 11 2009 18:52 GMT
#22
Orgo was a good class. Although I started to not care second semester.

The reason why I think it's hard for most people is because it's completely new material. With Bio/Chem/Physics you probably have some background from high school. But with orgo you're just learning totally new material for a semester and people aren't used to that. They need different ways of thinking/
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p53
Profile Joined September 2009
297 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-11 20:47:04
December 11 2009 20:45 GMT
#23
On December 11 2009 17:21 Roffles wrote:
Fuck OChem, it's all about Orgo.

OChem sucks, Orgo rocks.


lol, we call it orgo here too.

College-level orgo is pretty straightforward, but I imagine graduate orgo is a pain in the ass. I didn't dislike orgo only because I did well in the class (I never went to lecture...just read the textbook).

Orgo lab, on the other hand, is a pain in the ass.

On December 12 2009 03:41 gchan wrote:
Ugh I hated ochem because my professor was also the person who wrote the book. You'd think that that would make it easy, but he treated the book as mandatory material; anything he taught in lecture was additional material we had to learn. There just isn't enough time in one semester to cover that much.

Also, oddly enough, unlike most people, I really enjoyed physical chemistry over organic chemistry. I think part of that had to do with the fact that I had a really good professor and the fact that physical chemistry puts a lot of other parts of chemistry into perspective.


My PChem was all theory (all the math and stuff). I didn't feel like I was learning chemistry at all lol.
GrayArea
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States872 Posts
December 11 2009 21:04 GMT
#24
O-chem 1 is easy compared to o-chem 2. The synthesis questions in o-chem 2 are also way more challenging. There are a ton of reactions you have to memorize and really long mechanisms. In o-chem 1 it just sn1, sn2, e1, e2, and some basic addition reactions. The stereochem stuff is easy, and everything before that like nomenclature is easy too. next semester is when the real fun begins =P
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ghostWriter
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3302 Posts
December 11 2009 21:10 GMT
#25
Orgo is fun.
Memorizing reactions were a bit of a pain, but it was not terrible except during finals =/
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Equaoh
Profile Joined October 2008
Canada427 Posts
December 12 2009 01:32 GMT
#26
Orgo was fun but the finals raped me... procrastinate due to sc -> no time to memorize -> do poorly >
AtlaS
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1001 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-12 07:51:38
December 12 2009 07:50 GMT
#27
I was lucky to get the best professor at my university for Orgo. She really is a godsent. These were her ratings on ratemyprofessors.com (i swear by that site when picking out classes with multiple professors)
# No. of Ratings: 209
# Average Easiness: 3.0
# Average Helpfulness: 4.8
# Average Clarity: 4.8
# Hotness Total: 40
# Overall Quality: 4.8

(Average easiness, helpfulness, clarity, and quality are out of 5)

P.S. Orgo is the spawn of satin.
I don't have mono anymore. Woooo!
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