How difficult was ochem Veeky Forums...

How difficult was ochem Veeky Forums? I got to say after a whole year of organic it didn't really live up to it's reputation. After doing the readings plus lecture it seemed pretty straight forward to me.

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It wasn't hard. Only premed biofags complained about it.

Pretty sure it depends a lot on your school. Some places have super hard gen chem and easy ochem. Other schools it's the other way around.

Only going off of what friends said in undergrad and kids I tutor said later at different schools. I only took gen chem.

I thought it was very easy, mostly because I found it interesting and it felt like a puzzle game (I'm honestly not very smart)

Also, since the classes was curved, it's pretty easy to beat pre-med and bio majors. They just try to memorize their way through the class, when they should be trying to understand major concepts.

I found ochem to be pretty straightforward. A bit boring, maybe, but nothing all that complicated.

Somewhat related question. How difficult would it be to self-learn ochem? I took gen chem and enjoyed it but chem is definitely not going to be my major or minor. I'm a bit of a DIY polymath.

Not very. The core concepts are pretty easy, classes make it harder than it needs to.

Check out UCI openchemistry project.

I tried to blunt force learn in orgo I and it was hell on Earth with genetics, calc, psych, and a gen ed on top of it. Followed the advice of others and tried to develop an intuition/see the big picture of it and it wasn't too bad. It really just weeds out people who try to memorize or aren't really interested in biology or chemistry.

it's fun and interesting user