<p>I am understanding everything in Calc the moment it's taught to me. I am getting 100s on every quiz and nearly 100 on our first test. I spend almost no time studying for it and don't usually even need to finish the homework.</p>
<p>Chemistry is a different beast. It requires learning a TON of stuff, different ways to calculate things, definitions, etc - and then apply them. The flood of info seems so fast for me that I am having trouble keeping up. I got an 84 on our first test which I feel is bad since it's just General Chem 1.</p>
<p>I sometimes have a hard time figuring out what the word problems are asking me to do, and thinking of how to apply the things that I've learned. I have ADHD and spend a lot of time just trying to read 1 page from my Chem book. The real problem is time. I spend 6 hours studying and I feel like only 1 hour of that is actually spent effectively studying - I just stare at the book and refresh Facebook all day. </p>
<p>I haven't taken Physics yet.</p>
<p>Note: I always do very well at liberal arts classes and am a very global thinker/learner. </p>
<p>I have never been as good at word problems as I am at straight Calc and Algebra.</p>
<p>What kind of engineering? As long as you aren’t doing chemical engineering then who cares? I don’t remember the last time I had to remember some of the bologna I had to learn for chemistry, and that includes later on in graduate school. Then again, I am not a chemical engineer.</p>
<p>I bounce around quite a bit - possibly industrial, mechanical, or civil. </p>
<p>Do other engineering classes have this overload of information thing going for them?</p>
<p>Keep in mind this is the first time I’ve taken any Chemistry since 9th grade (8 years), I didn’t even remember what an electron was… so maybe that’s the problem. I have also never taken a physics class in my life. I wasn’t college bound while in high school, I was planning to join the military (which I did), so I took the bare minimum classes to graduate.</p>
<p>You don’t use chemistry much in Civil unless you go into the environmental side. I am taking an environmental engineering class now and I am struggling to remember basic stuff from chem 1 since I took it freshman year. </p>
<p>Industrial seems like it would have the least…</p>
<p>I don’t think you should be worrying at all, and certainly not making life plans or writing off majors on the basis of a few weeks of a single course with a single professor and one test score.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you are going to school, but an 84 on a chem exam might be an excellent grade. You might ask what the average was. Chem involves more memorization than most engineering classes. You just have to pass Chem, not ace it. Good luck!</p>
<p>When I went through college all the Engineering students besides Chem Eng hated Chemistry. Chemistry will only be 1 class, just take it pass it and get over it. Been good or bad in chemistry have no correlation to be good in engineering.</p>
<p>You can’t say you’re good at math because you’re good at calc. I’ve had good experience with my calc class (a lower level course), then I got into set theory and graph theory (upper level course) they’re a totally different beast =.=</p>
<p>The lesson is…advanced math is nothing like the stuff you learned in K-12</p>
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<p>Applied Math…yes, but not those other stuff</p>
<p>As many have stated, unless you are aiming for chemical engineering, this one chemistry class carries no weight so just pass it and forget it. However, having an issue with word problems will prove to be crippling when you get into the two class physics sequence. I’ve had trouble with word problems as well and 99% of my physics homework was taking what you’ve learned and applying that knowledge of physical science along with math to solve word problems. But I did it so I’m sure you can too.</p>
<p>Awesome, thanks for your responses. Basically, my concern is if engineering classes will be the same kind of thing as Chem (tons of things to memorize and word problems that require you to apply all the things you recently memorized).</p>
<p>i don’t think thats true at all. there is much more math in intro physics than intro chem. if the op is good at calc then physics shouldn’t be that hard. even for me personally, i didn’t do that well in chem, but i did pretty good in physics, in fact i started doing so well that i decided to minor in it.</p>