<p>Is it doable? I have quite a bit of O-chem experience. I was planning on taking it with LS2 during the summer session. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it’s an enforced requisite. Were you able to enroll in the class without any flags coming up on myucla?</p>
<p>I don’t think pre-requisites are enforced over summer for LS classes. From what I remember, there wasn’t much organic chemistry in LS3 other than bonds and interactions and the properties of nucleic acids and amino acids. Knowing a little bit about acidity and basicity and how structure (functional groups, side chains) leads to function would help. It doesn’t get too in-depth, it may vary with professor though. You could probably get by without having taken o-chem. IUPAC naming, aromaticity, and all that fun mass spec and NMR stuff don’t show up. </p>
<p>Also I probably wouldn’t take LS2 and LS3 at the same time, it’s very accelerated over summer and there will be a TON of information to memorize. Unless the only thing you’re doing is studying, and no research or work or fun and games, I’d recommend against it. It will be excruciating.</p>
<p>Yep, no requisites enforced. Ah, it’s either LS1 & LS2, or LS2 & LS3. With research, hopefully. I know it’s probably not a fair comparison, but would it be difficult after a full math science workload in spring (32B, 33B, physics 1C, a GE)?</p>
<p>Well if you were able to get through that courseload unscathed then I’d guess you have really good study skills and you could probably handle 2 LS classes, but they require a different kind of skill, I feel, more memorization than problem solving and less numbers/quantitative stuff, at least for LS2, but you should know what the consequences are, if say, this part of the electron transport chain is affected, what would happen to the rest of the pathway, so it’s not always straight up regurgitation. For LS3 there’s a lot of logic and reasoning behind designing and setting up experiments and understanding how to utilize molecular biology techniques and analyze results from blots, PCR, etc. I enjoy learning about bio and can pick up facts like a sponge, on the other hand I can’t for the life of me do math or physics and it’s hard for me to keep up in those subjects, you might have an affinity and talent for both though. </p>
<p>I think LS1 and LS2 would be slightly more doable than LS3, the material can get pretty dense and detailed especially the mechanisms behind transcription and translation. Keep in mind LS1 has a lab along with it, I put a lot of time into the reports, however studying for that class took less of a toll on my brain than LS3. </p>