chem 1 is cruel and unusual punishment.

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
21

<p>Re: Lewis' presentation... I actually have very fond memories of this, as the combination of sleep deprivation and chem 1 first term led to some beautiful hallucination-style dreams. Suddenly the lecture hall would be full of life-size atoms, and social interactions would be very simply reducible to Coulomb's law, and everything would make sense. And then some concept would be PARTICULARLY LOUD AND IMPORTANT and I'd be awake and lost again.</p>

<p>More seriously, a lot of chem 1 will make more sense once you get to phys 2/12. A lot of the quantumy material seems designed to get you used to the idea of blind symbolic manipulation, but it won't be (quite so) fuzzy forever.</p>

<p><a href="Personally,%20I'm%20deeply%20in%20love%20with%20CS1.%20Especially%20the%20amazing,%20ungodly%20lecturer,%20and%20the%20%22rework%20everything%20until%20you%20understand%20all%20the%20concepts%22%20policy.">quote</a>

[/quote]
</p>

<p>as well you should be.</p>

22

<p>I liked Lewis's teaching style and didn't find Ch 1a particularly difficult. I was not Axline, didn't really have anything except AP Chem, and I'm definitely no genius. Also, I'm a EE major. Stop worrying prefrosh/frosh.</p>

23

<p>Oh, and to contribute, EE40 is like the best course ever. Do you know how big the bandgap of diamond semiconductor is?</p>

<p>...</p>

<p>GODDAMN BIG</p>

24

<p>Shut up lizzardfire.</p>

25

<p>It's 6eV, right? But that's what I remember off the top of my head from APh/EE9.</p>

26

<p>Don't hate on my man Nate Lewis. Did you see his article in the Tech about him denying every week that he was the one chem major who graduated from LLoyd because he narced on the LSD lab? It was pretty funny. </p>

<p>Oh yeah I hate chem1a too. Actually I just hate the fact that you can't learn all you need to know by just looking at his lecture notes....well for me anyways.</p>

<p>But molecular orbitals were fun.</p>