Chemistry

[Nuzzolese]

I never took chemistry in school. Ever. How did I manage to avoid that?

Well okay I took it for a week then switched to Anatomy/Physiology because the Chem teacher mumbled and stood in front of the projector screen so I couldn't see what he was writing on his transparencies.

[Nuzzolese]

Sure did. Twice.

[Bob]

my chemisty teacher was mr. laliberte. we called him mr. la. he loved volleyball and monty python. he took away my graphing calculator because my friend was using it to play games in class. we'd try to distract him by talking about volleyball and monty python. he wore glasses.

as for the subject of chemistry itself, i don't remember anything. i thought it would be all beakers and fizzy green liquids, but no, it was all equations and diagrams. BO-RING

[enree erzweglle]

I never took chemistry in school. Ever. How did I manage to avoid that?

Well okay I took it for a week then switched to Anatomy/Physiology because the Chem teacher mumbled and stood in front of the projector screen so I couldn't see what he was writing on his transparencies.Are you saying that you didn't have it in high school or college? (Or are you saying that you haven't had it at all?

[Waus]

Feh. All I remember from high school chemistry was boxing with the hot mits and saying the broken bunsen burner tongs "had down's syndrome."

[Nuzzolese]

as for the subject of chemistry itself, i don't remember anything. i thought it would be all beakers and fizzy green liquids, but no, it was all equations and diagrams. BO-RING

Yeah, no kidding! I thought we'd be making flubber.

[Nuzzolese]

Are you saying that you didn't have it in high school or college? (Or are you saying that you haven't had it at all?

Both.

[Nuzzolese]

At college my 2nd roommate was a Biology major who wanted to be a pediatric surgeon, which if you knew her would be a big joke but that's another story, anyway she had to take about 3 years of chemistry and she hated it because she didn't think it would be as useful as other labs.

[alexandra]

my former chemistry teacher wasn't that good either. she was very boring (and seemed bored with herself too), and always told you to check the book when you wanted her to explain something. but i still love chemistry. and hey, no one's perfect. we got to do pretty exciting/interesting laboratory experiments tho', which kept everyone up.

i hope there's some "go" in my new chemistry teacher. and the one i'll have in physics, 'cause i've lost interest in that subject.

[cosmo105]

my chemistry teacher was old and senile. we made that poor man's life miserable. he was a jerk! he pronounced URL as "yurel," and he'd make you do makeup quizzes after school, and he'd fall asleep during them. we used to blow bubbles in class, stand up to ask question and then bow afterward (and everyone would applaud), we ate a gallon of ice cream in the back once without him noticing, we'd stack stools 6 high and my best friend danny would sit on them and take of his shirt and tie a sash around his neck like a cape until he noticed...and we'd ask him to spell every word...including "oldsmobile" once...anyway, the best thing i ever did was once i slipped a certs ice mint or whatever into the nasty-ass straw on the sports cup her brought every day. no one noticed and i had kind of forgotten about it by the end of class. until in the middle of an exercise, he took a sip, then looked terrified and spit out a little blue mint. he stared at it in his hand, then at everyone around. and screamed,

DID ONE OF YOU KIDS SLIP ME ECSTACY?!?!

no one knew who it was. he said he figured it was the class before us because they were the rowdy ones, so he ended up punishing them for it. i bit my lip so hard to keep from laughing it almost bled. i turned bright, bright red. mffttpphttt. as soon as we got out, i told my best friend and laughed so damned hard...that's still our favorite story.

[Nuzzolese]

It's such a potentially dangerous class for a bunch of rowdy teen hoods. Did anyone use the eyewash fountain or the shower?

[cosmo105]

we wanted to so badly...but we were the honors class, we were nerds and pussies and that was the extent of our shenanigans.

[Nuzzolese]

I think if I was an element I'd be # 27 Cobalt. It's my arbitrary fave. Name off your favorite elements!

The first thing most people think of when they hear the word cobalt is the color blue. While the purified metal is a grey steel color, the salts that include cobalt atoms are many shades of blue.

The element has been used for hundreds of years, but was named in 1735 by a chemist named Brandt. While cobalt is found in many minerals, it can be found as a pure element.

As miners have discovered, cobalt is often found in areas with high levels of arsenic

That's me:
good reputation, but deadly by proxy!

[Justin]

i had chemistry in high school, not college. I went the biology route.

[cosmo105]

I think if I was an element I'd be Cobalt. It's my arbitrary fave. Name off your favorite elements!
Ytterbium!! and Curium because MARIE CURIE RULES

[enree erzweglle]

Both.
I don't know how you avoided it in high school. At my university, if you were in the fine arts program, which was a tough program to get into, a lot of 101-level maths and sciences were waived. People in that FA program were so insulated because they were sort of sequestered into that program.

[Bob]

i'm boron

[alexandra]

plutonium, suckers.

[not funny] or oxygen, 'cause you can't live without me. [/not funny]

[mickill]

I'm definitely one of the Lanthanoids.

[sercomdj01]

Nahhh! Physics is where its at. I'm gonna do that at uni. Facinating (y)

[mickill]

I opted for Geology, myself.

[Bob]

physics was the only class i ever got a D in. and i was RELIEVED to get it. i sucked at that class. our original teacher got fired supposedly for some certification issue, but we all think he fucked a student. then we got a new guy and he sucked. i thought i was gonna fail. i didn't though.

[monkey]

chemistry was always so natural to me, it made perfect sense. i took regular chem then i took ap chem. then chem in college. always breezed through it. same with biology. physics is the only class that ever gave me trouble, though ive taken it time and time again (and the last time, i finally aced it. haha!)

[*HOTWIFE*]

I did not dig chemistry in high school. My chemistry teacher lived up the street from me. Her name was Mrs. Lander. I completely failed her class but she surprised me at the end of each quarter with a C. I think it's cuz my mother and she would talk every once in awhile when they saw each other outside. It's good to live near your teachers.

[Sarky Devotchka]

I had inorganic chemistry (meaning we didn't deal with carbon) in high school. my teacher was awesome. he was very grumpy, but hilarious. when we did stoichiometry, he'd call it "smokin' stoichies". also he made fun of me for being upset about not getting the highest test score in class every time second semester. stupid brent, he was always beating me by like one point.

in college, I had botony my senior year, and the professor said at the beginning, "well, I'm sure you're all familiar with organic chemistry...blah blah blah". and I was like, "uhh, fuck!" so the chemistry part of that class was pretty hard for me. I did alright though. and plants are cooler than I thought they were.

I'm Bohrium.

[icy manipulator]

I opted for Geology, myself.
Geology rocks!

[Ace42X]

I never took chemistry in school. Ever. How did I manage to avoid that?

My A-level chemistry teacher was called "Mike Wallwork". I pissed him off regularly by talking abominable shite non-stop through his boring subject. Including such exciting discussions as "I really like Internet pornography" exclaiemd at full volume in the middle of a lesson during a quiet patch.

[beastieangel01]

I cannot remember anything from high school chem. I just know that me and my three best friends at the time all had the same exact class. We'd goof off too much, use the squirt bottles for water fights, and I'd see what would happen to various papers and items by leaving them on the hot plate.

:/

[Vic Colfari]

I love jadeite. It is a pyroxene mineral with a composition of NaAlSi2O6. It has a Mohs hardness of about 6.5 to 7.0 depending on the composition. It is very dense with a specific gravity of about 3.4.

Jadeite forms solid solutions with other pyroxene endmembers such as augite and diopside (CaMg-rich endmembers), aegirine (NaFe endmember), and kosmochlor (NaCr endmember).

Sometimes they are flapjacks for the cow-fat.

[kaiser soze]

the only chemistry I remember was getting wasted

[ms.peachy]

What an obscure thread to dig up.

[HEIRESS]

How did I miss this thread the first time around?

I majored in cellular,molecular and microbial biology in University but somehow I've worked in the geochemistry industry for the past 7 years.
I don't get much lab time anymore though, instead I spent 8-12 hrs a day looking at numeric test results while slowing going blind as a bat.

Chemistry is a hard, hard mistress.

:(

[Guy Incognito]

when i was at high school (20 years ago)l, they tried some new way of teaching science which was to call it all science and do "modules" instead of the three separate classes for two years and give you 2 science qualifications. make sense? course it doesnt. I didnt have a fucking clue what was going on, didnt even know if each module was biology, chemistry or physics half the time.

[M|X|Y]

My chem teacher was Michael J. Fox with a bad haircut. Always pushing up his sleeves and shoving his hands in his pockets, shrugging.

He was a good teacher though, I was surprised I actually got it.

I was better at Biology, I got an A. My teacher was impressed at the way I dissected the frog. He told me I have the steady hands of a great surgeon and I should keep up with science. I did no such a thing.

I can still reference the exact scent of those frogs in the air that day, eeeewwww

[cosmo105]

I took a year of regular, then bio, organic, and a year of food chemistry. I absolutely loved it. It really depends on your professor, though. I had a couple terrible ones whose classes I didn't do very well in, and I had a couple of amazing ones that totally lit it up for me.

I work a lot with proteins and fats, and sometimes carbohydrates (usually starches and gums). I put my schooling to work every day and it's really rewarding :o

[Bob]

my chemistry teacher was a fan of volleyball and monty python so we always tried to derail the class by bringing them up. it never worked because he knew what we were doing but we always tried anyway. when i was in high school i could never get any games on my graphing calculator, they would never work. one day i finally found someone to help me out and get it set up, but we made the deal during chemistry class and my chemistry teacher caught us and took my calculator and deleted whatever it is that the other guy did (he hated people playing games during class). that was the closest i ever came to having games, and that jerk snatched it away. i ended up making my own games by teaching myself to program the calculator. i thought this knowledge would serve me well when i took an intro to programming course in college but i couldn't figure it out and ended up dropping the class and getting a W on my transcript for withdrawing too late

anyway i can't remember what chemistry is

[saz]

What an obscure thread to dig up.

or more like a who cares/boring thread.

[miss soul fire]

I couldn't choose between classes, only foreign language, so I HAD to take chemistry, which was good though.:p

[Vic Colfari]

I love thinking about oxidants. An oxidant removes electrons from another substance. In muscle tissue it serves as a major component of endomysium. Collagen constitutes 1% to 2% of muscle tissue, and accounts for 6% of the weight of strong, tendinous muscles.

Substances that have the ability to reduce other substances are said to be reductive and are known as reducing agents, reductants, or reducers.

A polypeptide is a single linear chain of amino acids bonded together by peptide bonds. A reductant transfers electrons to another substance, and is thus oxidized itself. And because it "donates" electrons it is also called an electron donor.

[Bob]

I love thinking about oxidants. An oxidant removes electrons from another substance. In muscle tissue it serves as a major component of endomysium. Collagen constitutes 1% to 2% of muscle tissue, and accounts for 6% of the weight of strong, tendinous muscles.

Substances that have the ability to reduce other substances are said to be reductive and are known as reducing agents, reductants, or reducers.

A polypeptide is a single linear chain of amino acids bonded together by peptide bonds. A reductant transfers electrons to another substance, and is thus oxidized itself. And because it "donates" electrons it is also called an electron donor.

don't you think i already know that?!

[Myu-to]

When I pee in a toilet with blue water, it turns the water green.