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<p>And they call Cornell cutthroat ;)</p>
<p>My lab partner did have to ask the TA for help. She couldn't attach the hose to the water facet. And she also broke a $75 distillation head (btw: you will break stuff in orgo lab). What a klutz.</p>
<p>She ended up with an A. I ended up with a B+ :(</p>
<p>I had above average purity too but I think you and I both wish we had awesome yield cuz yield was worth more than purity.</p>
<p>^haha...yeah. For the isopentyl acetate synthesis practical I got the mixture with the added compound that made my extraction mixture almost black and I had to hold a flashlight to the extraction funnel to see the interface. I deserved bonus points for that....lol</p>
<p>I kicked butt on the midterm and probably would have had an A....but those practicals killed me</p>
<p>I also managed to make it through orgo without breaking anything....pretty amazing since I have butter fingers...</p>
<p>Oh gosh... does anybody wanna dork out about their CB300 negotiation project?</p>
<p>^ Okay...first..</p>
<p>What the crap are you guys talking about...with this..purity..yield..thing...?</p>
<p>Organic chemistry (and orgo lab) is all about reactions and synthesizing cool chemical compounds. So, your goal in lab is to take a set amount of reagent and synthesize as much of the product as you can (yield) and as pure of a product as you can (purity).</p>
<p>Oh..</p>
<p>Is that hard..?</p>
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Organic chemistry (and orgo lab) is all about reactions and synthesizing cool chemical compounds. So, your goal in lab is to take a set amount of reagent and synthesize as much of the product as you can (yield) and as pure of a product as you can (purity).
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<p>So basically you kids were over in Baker playing mini-pharma company while I was reading Marx?</p>
<p>Well, I read Marx, Weber, Foucault, etc., just not in Chem 251 lol</p>
<p>Not many bio majors can say that, norcalguy.</p>
<p>Perhaps I should change my line to "... while I was relating to industry and labor."</p>
<p>I'm really a humanities person disguised as a science major.</p>
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<p>That of course depends on the person. Some students like talking about Levi-Strauss and structuralism. Some students like synthesizing isopentyl acetate with 98% purity and 70% yield. These students are also wondering what a jeans company has to do with structuralism.</p>
<p>So why aren't you at the University of Chicago getting your PhD in anthropology?</p>
<p>lol it became a chem discussion. </p>
<p>about the japanese thing, i think it goes super well of pre meds. my friend got a A+ in it and boom 6 credits of A+ -_-. i dont know how non asians do in that class cause i dont know any non asians who takes japanese or chinese (both 6 credits). but they dont let natives in intro classes. A friend of mine told me if you can write your own name in that language they put you in native level language (4 credits which is infinitely harder lol) I've only heard of A range grades for 6 credit language classes for non natives.</p>
<p>and my other pre med friend who didn't take a language was like "i'll take the 6 credit for the major grade boost"</p>
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<p>If you are brilliant, intellectual, and creative, you should get a PhD.</p>
<p>If you're good at following protocols, not creative, and have no problems answering to authority, you should get a MD.</p>
<p>Hence, I will be matriculating at med school in the fall.</p>
<p>^^haha..thanks for that.</p>
<p>In the event I actually get med school interviews I think I need to be prepared to answer why I want to do an MD over a PhD :-)</p>
<p>I was only asked "Why not a PhD" at one of my interviews. I was a little caught off guard by the question since no one had asked me that at my other interviews. It was in response to me talking about how much I enjoy teaching, tutoring, and advising.</p>
<p>ahhh....I've got 6 years of research and a lot of publications...so I feel like it might come up</p>
<p>Go for a MD/PhD... no debt! And teaching!</p>
<p>Plus, if it's worth anything to you, I think that around half of doctors without a PhD are quacks. Good at memorization, but awful at approaching medicine from a scientific perspective.</p>
<p>That said... I have health issues... and have had like seven different diagnoses in the last year. And each doctor told me they were "100 percent sure" of my condition. So I'm bitter.</p>
<p>haha....if I do well on my MCAT I might consider it. My bosses are MD/PhDs though, and they tell me not to do the combined program.</p>
<p>Why not? I would be interested in their thoughts. I can see how it might be a detriment to a female hoping to have a career and a family.</p>