Chem sucks.

Chem sucks. I hate Chem. Especially portions where they make you memorise stuff and so on. I tot it's all about application not memorisation. Sure, some memorisation is expected. But if we have to memorise details for individual elements that's just ridiculous.

Like halogen. Or Alkaline metals. Or periodicity. There's just so much freaking different things to remember.... Product of disportionation of halogen, the reactivity of the metals with steam, the oxides... So much stuff..

Do real life Chemists remember these stuff?! Well, 'course they do to a certain extent, they deal with these stuff half the time of the day. But seriously, we should all just have a table of values, properties to reference. Saves memory work by A LOT. People who can't memorise can't score. What's this?! It's not fair at all!! If we all had nothing else in life but academia, then all right, we'll just all be insane muggers. But it's not that case. We still got a bunch of other subjects, and Chem is really just so damn difficult with all its properties.

I really hate Chem. I was joking once that Chemists must be really sad people back in the early 19th century. Just as Physicists had nothing qualitative to work on, Chemists as well. They only had observational data, nothign concrete. I think. Anyway, Physicists spent their time coming up with a table of every imaginable value that can ever be observed experimentally. Which i suppose kinda infringes in Chemistry. While, I suspect Chemists spend their time looking for observable patterns in those mountains of values. And they got really insane and silly and started naming their compounds with pet names. Like Edta and Danny Boy. And formaldehyde and ammine. Well they didn't have a sense of humour so Danny Boy was never a compound.
Then Physicists came along and saved Chemists from their sorry fate of giving monickers to every single compound in the world, by giving them Quantum Theory.

Now they have the Pauli exclusion principle, Aufbau building up principle and the Hund's rule. Kudos to physics. Chem became a much more meaningful subject especially with orbitals and being able to analyse compounds with the Electron Tunneling Microscope.

Of course, everything up there was fictional, but it might as well have been true, 'cause Chem still sucks. If they'd left out the last 4 topics of Chemistry, Chemistry might actually be a really enjoyable subject. But they didn't. So it sucks. Grr.


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