oh.... or, or not.... *sniff* |
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I am thinking about applying for bachelor of science (chemistry) or bachelor of science (biochemistry and chemistry) next year. |
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oh.... or, or not.... *sniff* |
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You might want to commandeer this thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/f48/tell-m...mistry-111639/ |
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Yeah I saw that thread. But I sort of wanted to know some subjects that would be contained within a Bachelor's degree. Or personal insights etc. |
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As one boisterous physicist once put it in one of my classes: "Chemistry is... dirty physics" |
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haha. Yes sort of. I like that though I think lol |
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Go torrent some gen chem textbooks. Usually they come in giant packs of books, and that's desirable. Skim a few pages from the first and fourth chapters of each (first chap. as a content overview, fourth chap. as a random sample of its actual method), and make a note of your favorite, stylistically. I mean, choose which one you like best by which one reads best (or, reads your favorite way. I like my textbooks to be conversational.), and then read the most interesting chapters casually. |
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Abraxas
Originally Posted by OldSparta
HAHA ok |
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Two years of degree level Chemistry experience here. |
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Last edited by Photolysis; 04-12-2011 at 02:52 PM.
Are you still studying it, or did you stop after 2 years? |
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I'm not formally studying it at the moment; I put my degree on hold almost 3 years ago now. University's not for me at this point |
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Hehe, interesting coz I was reading this science study guide today that came with COSMOS magazine and they interviewed some people who had done the courses a few years ago or whatever and the guy who was interviewed for engineering said "you don't need to be a mathematician" lol I'm thinking maybe people underestimate the difficulty of some maths for some people. Unless engineering is way less mathematical than I thought, I was under the impression it was fairly intense though. |
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Hm, well I respect maths, I love how it works and how powerful/useful it is, it's just that I find it difficult, it's pretty much the only thing that I do find difficult. I can memorise everything ok, but I find it frustrating to not understand something. So when I was in school, and they went through everything way too fast, I just gave up because I didn't understand any of it. I found out that no one really did, they jsut remembered it and didn't care that they didn't know what they were doing. So maybe I could pick it up if I tried to now. I guess I'll give it a go and see. |
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You need to know partial derivatives and linear algebra for thermo, which'd be your hardest class. At an American university, that means taking about three semesters of calculus. Go into college planning on taking a calc class freshman year (not precalc, you should do that in high school, or over the summer!). If your school is cool, which it should be, the calc courses should be mostly computational. Meaning, if you memorize formulas and algorithms, you'll probably get an A. Most people who have trouble in non-proof math tend to misunderstand the notation, or perhaps the means of abstraction. That's a pretty easy fix if you talk to your professors early on, though. |
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Originally Posted by OldSparta
Yeah I think I have problems with the means of abstraction, if you mean what I think you do, but if I get some help from various places I'm sure I could figure it out. |
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For any job involving research you have two options: |
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