The mine again

[Quillback]

6 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Organic chem 1 started with about 70 and finished with a dozen or so.  

That is brutal, I don't even know what that class is about, I suppose I could do a search.

[Devan S.]

Chemistry was the bane of existence for me. 

Physics, math, statics, dynamics, all made sense. Heck even thermodynamics while hard made sense.....chemistry just never worked in my brain.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

32 minutes ago, Devan S. said:

Chemistry was the bane of existence for me. 

Physics, math, statics, dynamics, all made sense. Heck even thermodynamics while hard made sense.....chemistry just never worked in my brain.  

My daughter struggles through dynamics...

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

That is brutal, I don't even know what that class is about, I suppose I could do a search.

Organic is carbon based chemistry.  Google it if you want a headache...

[SpoonDog]

3 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Organic is carbon based chemistry.  Google it if you want a headache...

My high school teacher had a bumper sticker that said "I passed Organic Chem."

[snagged in outlet 3]

14 minutes ago, SpoonDog said:

My high school teacher had a bumper sticker that said "I passed Organic Chem."

It’s pretty tough.  

[Al Agnew]

As I graduated high school with no real notion of what I wanted to do with my life, let alone what I wanted to major in college, and since I hated math, I wanted to take as little math as necessary.  I'd graduated third in my class in high school without ever studying, so most schoolwork was obviously easy for me, but not math.  Because I'd graduated so high, my counselor got me into a special summer school at Mineral Area (Junior) College for gifted math students, somehow.  If I could pass the courses in that, I'd have all my college math out of the way.  So I showed up, and immediately realized that I was in way over my head.  After about three weeks, the head instructor called me into his office, and asked me why I was struggling so much.  "Maybe," I said, " it's because I never took anything more advanced than Algebra II in high school?" 

"What?  This class is supposed to only be for students who aced the most advanced Calculus and such courses they could take in high school!  No wonder you're having trouble.  You don't have a clue what we're doing in class."

"That's for sure."

"Well, I hate for you to fail this course, but unless you can figure things out I don't see anything else happening...Tell you what--if you can somehow pass the final, I'll give you a C for the course.  Or you can just drop out."

How hard could it be, I thought.  I'd always been able to figure out anything having to do with schoolwork without half trying.  Surely I could figure this crap out if I really worked at it.  I basically spent every free moment I had during the rest of that 8 week course trying to understand all that stuff well enough to pass a test.  Worked about 50 times as hard as I'd ever worked on "homework".  And ended up BARELY passing the final.  It was the only C on my entire college transcript.  But I didn't have to take any more math.  And I don't remember one single thing I supposedly learned in that course.

[Terrierman]

On 8/12/2020 at 1:58 PM, Gumboot said:

Nope.  Pentair.  Primarily water pumps.

Pentair is a solid outfit.  Did a lot of business with them back when I was actually in business.  Everything from little home STEP system or well pumps to you name it.  Best to your son.

[Terrierman]

2 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

It’s pretty tough.  

Hardest college class I ever had.  Only took it twice and thought that was a huge accomplishment.

[tjm]

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