Wednesday, April 11, 2007
One down, Four to go
My chemistry exam is finished. It was a very fair exam, and I think I did fairly well. There was one or two questions that confused me, and I don't think I answered them well, and one I couldn't answer at all; something to do with find the temperature at which a certain reaction would be at equilibrium given this deltaG value and this deltaH value. x.o I feel sorry for our professor. Most of the class is ragging on him for the fact that they're doing badly. I'm averaging an A-. He's not a super prof, I'll be honest there... but I really don't think it's mostly his fault. Some people just don't get chemistry, and that's fine. Yeah, it's going to look bad on your transcript, but perhaps you are better suited to something else. And please, work your butt off to get a passing grade before you start blaming the professor. If you have done all the assigned questions, some extra questions, read the text book, read and re-read your notes, asked the professor for help, asked other professors for help, sought tutoring, and studied for a week before the test instead of an hour the night before, then and only then can you suspect that something might be wrong with the professor's teaching style. I'm lucky and blessed, and I thank God for it, that I have a photographic memory. This certainly makes things easier on me. But I also work. I could work harder if I thought I needed to, but for this course I don't. And please, think about what you're doing before you start tearing down a relatively young professor's self esteem. We all need constructive criticism, but I wonder how much he's been getting, and how much is needless insults.
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