As the school year begins to wind down, I find myself getting caught up in a lot of studying. I don't have many projects due this semester, but exams and finals are beginning to loom over me like grim death. The important thing for me right now is to keep motivated to study. I have begun making a study schedule to keep myself on track. Hopefully, I will be prepared for finals this semester.
I have also finally found something I like about Organic Chemistry. We are currently learning about HNMRs, CNMRs, IRs, and Mass Spectrometry in 331 lab. Basically, given the empirical formula of a compound and these four things, you can determine the exact structure of a compound. They sound difficult, but they are very puzzle-like, and I actually enjoy doing them.
Other than that all I have to look forward to is going home this weekend and seeing my family for Easter. When my dad's family get together, there are always a lot of us, and we end up playing board games. In theory, some of my problem-solving skills should translate to helping me crush my cousins in board games.
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That too is what I enjoyed about Organic Chemistry, especially how our professor Dr. Chen taught it. He tried to focus on it more as a problem solving course rather than pure memorization. I especially enjoy solving syntheses and HNMR's because while they may be difficult they can always be solved and it just takes sometimes looking at them in a different way to figure out how best to do it.
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