<p>One of my friends is taking orgo right now as a freshman. While he's planning on med school, he told me "I'm a chem concentrator first, pre-med second"...it seems he really likes this stuff (and even has an A in the class right now, to boot). Are there a lot of pre-meds who like organic chemistry to this extent? Or is it really uncommon?</p>
<p>I never liked the name 'orgo.' We used the name 'o-chem' at my school. Sounds better.</p>
<p>Agreed. How does "Orgo" even make sense? I don't see where the second o comes from.</p>
<p>I enjoy orgo, I like building models and Ochem answers a lot of the misc questions I had about how reactions work. Also, my professor is really cool and a fun person to hang out with during office hours.</p>
<p>The tests are hard as hell though. The mean on our second exam was around a 50.</p>
<p>Organic reminded me of puzzles. What to use, when to use it. I thought it was pretty interesting.</p>
<p>I've heard that "Orgo" is the term used on the East Coast, and "O-chem" is the term used on the West Coast. I went to college in New York, and we called it "Orgo."</p>
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<p>Same here. I really enjoyed *Orgo<a href="not%20OChem!">/I</a> when I took it. It is definitely the hardest class and most time-consuming class I've taken, but the material is very interesting and my teacher was awesome. The hard work paid off.</p>
<p>Whenever me and my friends would get together to study for a test, we'd go through a number of problems on whiteboards in the library. Multi-step synthesis problems were especially fun, because I'd go through all the little details and nuances of the problem to come up with a list of possible routes and reactions, and then logically determine which reagents/reactions/compounds had to be correct. It made me feel like House, writing the reactions and possibilities on the whiteboard and having my friends suggest possible reactions/routes (and correcting them when they were wrong!), ultimately putting it all together to come to the proper solution.</p>
<p>Personally, I hated it. I'm not surprised people like it, but it is not for me. Yuck.</p>
<p>Also, here and maybe at other places, the chemistry concentration has a nearly-perfect overlap with pre-med requirements, so more power to chem majors I guess.</p>
<p>It's O-CHEM!!!!!!!! Not freakin Orgo. </p>
<p>I did not like it, it was so hard. But I still did well.</p>
<p>I like Orgo (Yes freaking Orgo, I don't know why, but it is). There's a sense of satisfaction when you're doing the problem.</p>
<p>Both my husband and I were bio majors. Both took O-CHEM, not orgo, one of us on the east coast and one on the west coast. Never heard of orgo. What schools specifically use the term orgo?</p>
<p>Northwestern</p>
<p>UNC-Chapel Hill</p>
<p>WashU also.</p>
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<p>At least orgo is more easy and enjoyable than biochem.</p>
<p>At Stanford, Penn, Harvard it's O-chem.</p>
<p>Wrong, it's orgo over here.</p>
<p>But generally, biochem > orgo, right?</p>
<p>i like the content of orgo (yea orgo here) but i don't like the harsh grading style of orgo exams =(</p>