<p>Which class is harder in your opinion and why? Is it because you are more of a problem solver or because you like to memorize and store knowledge?</p>
<p>Organic was harder for me, but I was on a medication that impairs your short term memory for both semesters, so memorizing anything at all was a challenge for me.</p>
<p>Biochem just makes sense pretty easily. I took it over the summer and even though we still fit in all of the chapters normally covered during the semester and I took it with supposedly the hardest professor who still teaches it at my school, it just came pretty easily. I mean I still studied a lot of course, but I never memorized anything other than the amino acids and when it came time for the test there was no issue. My professor for biochem was a lot more focused on problem solving, though.</p>
<p>In comparison, I got a B- in orgo 1, a B in orgo 2, and an A in biochem.</p>
<p>O-Chem was easier for me. After memorizing the first 10,000 reactions, I could see the patterns, and it made sense. Memorizing the Krebs Cycle and gluconeogenesis was torture, and somehow on the exams my labeled carbon atom always split off as a CO2 molecule somewhere along the way. I knew it was wrong but by that time I was helpless to do anything about it. It’s funny now, but not so much then.</p>
<p>The difficulty of the class really depends on how you understand and learn things as well as the material covered and the general difficulty level that the professor teaches at. At my school, you had to take organic I and II before you could take biochem. I personally enjoy biochem more because it applies chemistry to biology and is on a slightly larger scale that is easier to picture and apply (for me anyways). Are you more interested in the specifics molecules and electrons (organic) or in molecules, proteins and pathways (biochem)?</p>
<p>More so interested in the molecules, proteins, and pathways, although I’m not very fond of memorizing processes, however.</p>
<p>The average grades will most likely be lower in an orgo class since it’s typically a weeder class for chem and premed. No idea whether the material is harder or not (I’m a math/physics major myself), but I certainly hear more complaints about orgo than biochem.</p>
<p>I am math/physics oriented - I made A’s in physical chemistry and B’s in organic chemistry. Thus I found both oChem and biochem to be rather ridiculous in the amount of things you had to memorize. At least in oChem there was a little logic behind everything. In biochem, there is no rhyme or reason (“it evolved that way”) so it’s straight-up memorization. Needless to say, the fact that there were no equations to solve drove me crazy.</p>
<p>wow you’re a genius. While the absence of equations drove you crazy, the requirement to solve equations drive most of the other students crazy. You must have a very logical brain. I wish i were like you. I admire mathmaticians, physicists, engineers because they can solve equations. I am good at memorizing, but I would love to use logic.</p>