So…
I just took an introductory chemistry course and I just liked it. I thought about continuing next semester with general chemistry I.
But a dilemma strikes over what to perhaps do in the summer.
On one hand, I could take organic chemistry I. It’d bolster my foundation even further and allow me to engage in more opportunities in chemistry and other interdisciplinary fields.
But on the other hand, I’d lose on being exposed to a laboratory. Summer can be a vital time of growth outside of class and I can commit way more hours into a lab during the summer than, say, in fall.
What is some advice I can get from people who have undergone similar roads? thanks.
Don’t take orgo over the summer. Even for people who like chemistry it’s a killer at regular semester pace, so don’t even think about it in the summer (many students in the summer version are actually the countless casualties of semester orgo , trying to retake and pass.)
What year are you?
Hey, I’m not even yet done with my first semester as frosh. I didn’t know organic chemistry could be challenging enough for people to fail. How do people then take it if not in a semester? thanks.
They take it in a regular semester (and many have to retake it over the summer, in a faster paced/compressed/super intensive version). It’s basically the hardest class you take as a premed, for instance, and even those who survived weed out science classes freshman year sink during Orgo.