I don't think I've ever had a good lab partner. They always want me to help them cheat or have no idea what they're doing but take full control anyway. I've gotten caught for helping a lab partner cheat twice, and the third time that I was "forced" to give them answers I ended up throwing them under the bus and they subsequently failed the class and was forced to drop out of school. It was actually much worse than that though, because that person was a "friend" of a couple years (she a complete retard and cheated on literally everything she could). I got a ton of backlash from our mutual "friends" for doing that to her but I don't regret it at all because she deserved it.
I actually have had one or two good lab partners in physics labs, but never once in chemistry. Chemistry labs are full of brainlets and cheaters from other departments that love to shit up chemistry classes.
Jack Evans
I think it has a lot to do with what majors require chemistry and physics. Out of the 15000 or so students at my school, ~100 are chemistry majors and nearly a quarter of students are majoring in biology or some kind of medical science. Nothing against life sciences, of course, I myself am biochem, but they tend to not give a shit about the chemistry portions of their curriculum. Whereas students in physics labs are usually in a related major, whether that be engineering, chem, or physics itself, so they tend to pay more attention and be more competent.
Gonna go in to calc then I’ve got lab work to do, but part 2 of the story will be out soon
Parker Jackson
Did they not set it up properly because there's been times where idiots don't look them down and the rotating part just fly out
Jackson Hall
>stories >Dumb teacher asks for a dumb undergrad to clean up the whole lab for some suck-ass points >Dumb undergrad, freshman offers himself, let's call him Ass >Ass goes to the lab, starts cleaning >College janitor helps him >lets clean this >switch the oil inside some jars >washing jar >white solid over the table starts catching fire >Kerosene (the oil) around the solid is going off too >holyshit >janitor instinctively throws water on it. >it is [math] {Na}_{(s)} [/math] > [math] {Na}_{(s)} + H_2 O \rightarrow {H}_{2} + 2NaOH [/math] >reaction is explosive >on fire Kerosene burns H2 >NaOH all over Ass >Explosion all over Ass >Fire all over Ass >3rd-degree burns (i guess) >scary ass scars all over him >lost part of the ear >goes to the right ear to the right leg >becomes a fucking inside joke for not recognizing sodium
Ian Flores
What’s up with this meme the that being good at orgo requires a lot of memorization? All you need to know is that opposite charges attract and have a little spatial visualization.
Also, is analytical or physical chemistry more boring?
Joseph Brooks
>orgo premed spotted
Asher Reed
Yeah except for listing off the bajillion different reagents used that are generally highly specific to reaction types. The actually chemistry isn't difficult for memorization but the things used to achieve the effects make a massive laundry list.
Both are awesome, one for it's lab the other because it's the fundamentals of how all chemistry works. Pchem made all of Chemistry come together for me.
John Parker
I didn’t know that was a premed term. Only just saw it in this thread so I thought I’d be cool. I’m majoring in biochem and thinking of doing clinical lab work or forensics.
Jordan Gutierrez
check this out user
>physics lab >1st day >don't really know anyone except 2 people who are friends of a friend >decide to go to their table >then another friend of theirs joins who is a friend of a friend >like them he was also an engineering student >every fucking class he would spam that pimp my ride meme with his voice >like actually say it out loud multiple times in a row with different variations; that weren't even creative >would also quote bender's binary copy pasta from that futerama special >he'd saythe entire thing multiple times every class >while doing experiments the professor would let us do them in some neighboring class rooms >since they didn't have sessions then and their wasn't enough room in ours >he would go sit in a corner and watch shit on his laptop without headphones and the volume up >that fuckers autism made it so hard for me to work I ended up getting and B >nicely asked professor if she could bump my 89.996 up to an A. >chuckled and said no
