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<p>perhaps my professor is just a ******, but my God. Isn't Organic Chemistry like three times as bad as bio?</p>
<p>Nope, Bio stays hard and getting harder</p>
<p>Not necessarily. It depends very much on the prof. In my case, orgo was actually easier than general bio just because my orgo prof was an easy guy and my general bio prof was a hardcore. But given the same type of prof with the similar degree of meanness, orgo will be harder.</p>
<p>Move in day is in about a week and reading this I think I got the first of many sick feelings in my gut as a pre-med. </p>
<p>Well at least it’s good to know early on what I might be getting myself into. Speaking of orgo though, I spoke with a bio professor at a college close to home and he said that orgo was surprisingly popular among the students there.</p>
<p>Bio was easy-peasy for me, but I was taking the class as a junior. I remember that on the first day, lots of my freshmen classmates looked nauseated.</p>
<p>Orgo, on the other hand, was a monster. Part of me wants to go back to college so I could retake that class and redeem myself.</p>
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<p>And you were a hardcore chemistry major!</p>
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<p>I bet you could definitely redeem yourself if you went back. After all, MS Step 1 should be much more challenging than any class for the undergraduate kids :)</p>
<p>Seriously, I believe that every school has its own set of monster classes; and the students encounter some of these classes when they are still young and inexperienced. Also, as you pointed out, the difficulty of a class may be a function of the mental age of a student.</p>
<p>Sometimes I feel that, with the same level of academic capability, the students who are naturally more mentally matured tend to be more successful on the premed track.</p>
<p>I was somewhat worried about DS when he was a freshman, esp. during the second semester when the excitement of going to college all by himself was not there anymore and the homesickness kicked in. I intentionally persuaded him to take more “fun” classes and fewer “not so fun” premed prereqs that semester. Yes, he had the dreadful “orgo I” in that semester.</p>
<p>D. has Bio every year. She is junior and continue taking Bio classes. The first Bio though was designed as weed out killer very well known as such in Honors dorm even among other majors who knew to avoid taking the class.</p>