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[BSL]

TK yeeeeah

 

[#HBC | Nabe]

K, the new avatar/name/title combo is delish.

 

[ranmaru]

Gonna play some LoL. who wants to play

 

[Kantrip]

Nom nom nom, ahh don't tempt me so Ran! Homework must be done! Good thing I'm a scrub at LoL anyways.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

TK reminded me how hilarious that AB special was. Oh god.

 

[#HBC | Kary]

nice avvie xonar


put potassium in hot water and it blows up like crazy

can't decide if appropriate analogy

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

I like this one. The full image has been my background for ages.

 

[Circus]

Is Potassium Kantrip?

 

[Raziek]

Aye.

You'd think that the location, consistent name color, and consistent theme of DK avatars would give it away.

 

[Circus]

Well that's why I guessed it, Raz.

Also, to be fair, I've never paid attention to where Kantrip lives.

 

[Raziek]

Canadian pride, homie.

 

[Orboknown]

There's a waitress at my workplace who is Canadian.
She gets made fun of for it constantly, mainly wrt her pronunciation of certain words(sorry, out, etc.) but we still love having her there.

 

[Raziek]

One day, we will rise and slay you all.

Just kidding, we're too polite for that.

 

[Orboknown]

you have EE.
we're already out-muscled.
GG America

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

Canadian pride, homie.

So ironic that you went for the Gova face emote after that sentence.

EE, while completely unkillable, can be neutralized. Knock him into orbit. It'll take him decades to find a meteor to ride back on.

 

[#HBC | ѕoup]

Never thought I'd see the day Xonar would stoop to a touhou avatar

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

What? He's been Youmu off and on for forever.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Needs more Wisconsin.

 

[BSL]

Who's face is that?

 

[Shun Goku Satsu Rake]

what we have all waited for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_iKPqOUlQ&feature=related

 

[KevinM]

Who's face is that?

That was my teams partner haha

 

[Vinylic.]

A grave for Kevin M.

Kevin M's teammate implanted on his gravestone.

 

[DtJ Glyphmoney]

Hey Raziek do you remember that time we all posted that gif on your wall

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I was apart of that.

 

[Ramen King]

I have a giant chemistry test tomorrow and I haven't read over any of the material the past two weeks. Kantrip help meeeeeeeee.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

I have a giant chemistry test tomorrow and I haven't read over any of the material the past two weeks. Kantrip help meeeeeeeee.

General Chemistry I or II?

Is there going to be a lot of Hasselbalch in it and rate laws, because if it is then you should just memorize problems to use your time effectively.

Basically at my school, 1/4 of the test was on general theory and the other 3/4 were based on actual situational problems in which you had two ions in equilibrium or in a solution and you had to figure out molar quantities and rate limiting reactions and stuff. In those cases it was just more efficient to do a quick review note skim and to focus on note + textbook problems + practice tests. It didn't make any sense to really get absorbed in theory if it was going to be general. And studying theory can waste a lot of time.

Also in ANY general classes I know there are kids that bomb. So if this is like one test that you bomb then fine. Just make sure you don't bomb big. If the exam is in the morning, then don't go to bed tonight and skip all your classes leading up to the exam if you feel unprepared. If the exam is at night, then definitely get enough sleep to feel refreshed or else you're going to nap and if you can't power nap that can be disastrous.

 

[Ramen King]

General Chemistry I

Looking over it, it looks like we are doing electron configuration, atom shape, and stuff like that. These tests are unbelievable. I've never had a problem with taking tests other than in chemistry. I took this class last year and failed so I'm retaking it this year. During the first exam I actually attempted to get all the help I could and all that. I went to all the practice exams and thought I did extremely well on the test. Turns out I got a high C. Which as a future microbiology major is a huge failure. I did better on the first exam last year when I didn't even put that much into it -.-
The test this year was 29 questions so you could only miss 2 to get an A. No curves. I swear it's going to drive me out of this field. I freaking love biology, but I hate unapplied chemistry. I need to relate it to the real world to get anything out of it.

I'm going to try your suggestion this time. Usually I put the most work into understanding the theory behind it rather than focusing on specific problems. That has always helped me to do well in my other classes, but I guess it's just something I can't do here.

 

[BSL]

Just switch to astrophysics. Space is cool.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

 

[Kantrip]

Unfortunately I don't think I'll be of much assistance with high-school level Chemistry. Especially when each year you learn that the stuff you learned the year before was completely wrong and oversimplified for temporary understanding.

 

[Ramen King]

I failed chem in highschool too. Never retook it. No idea how I graduated.

 

[Vinylic.]

Oh, so you're kantrip. At first I was like, "who's this guy posting in here and the kirby boards?"


@zen: Grade forgiveness, maybe.

 

[SummonerAU]

got a 3 man group going on LoL with Ranmaru and Seph. Looking for others!

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

General Chemistry I

Looking over it, it looks like we are doing electron configuration

Valence electrons. Two in the first shell. Eight in every other shell in pairs of two. Groups on the far left of the periodic table are most willing to part with their electrons, ones on the right are least willing to part and will steal electrons from other groups. Also atomic weight has an effect on general electronegativity. Fluoride for one is potentially the most ionic compound followed by chloride, bromine, iodide, on the way down the group.

atom shape

Probably need to memorize these. Like water forming a tetrahedral and some other weird molecules like how boron and sulphur sometimes form weird configurations.

These tests are unbelievable. I've never had a problem with taking tests other than in chemistry. I took this class last year and failed so I'm retaking it this year.

IT HAPPENS DON'T MIND.

During the first exam I actually attempted to get all the help I could and all that. I went to all the practice exams and thought I did extremely well on the test. Turns out I got a high C. Which as a future microbiology major is a huge failure. I did better on the first exam last year when I didn't even put that much into it -.- The test this year was 29 questions so you could only miss 2 to get an A. No curves. I swear it's going to drive me out of this field. I freaking love biology, but I hate unapplied chemistry. I need to relate it to the real world to get anything out of it.

Yeah. I was biotech/biochem. If you have time to nerd out go grab your chem manual and try to relate your text material as much as possible. Distillation and extraction are extremely invaluable skills and will be used again in future lab courses at the very least.

I'm going to try your suggestion this time. Usually I put the most work into understanding the theory behind it rather than focusing on specific problems. That has always helped me to do well in my other classes, but I guess it's just something I can't do here.

I think you know the theory by now if you've already taken this class before. Also yes, do problems. Biology is way different from chemistry in that most of general bio is theory based like studying atp production and all that information are in the textbook. Chem problems when it comes to quantification and some change of phase calculations and anything with numbers will not be fully explained in the lesson itself like biology. In my mind, doing problems was the equivalent of getting a second set of information on top of going over the textbook excerpts.

Most chem courses are weed out courses or they expect you to really like the subject material so much you will dedicate free time on it. Organic, Physical, and Biochem were worse than general chem just as a heads up. I'm not deterring you. Just giving you a heads up that there are more walls up ahead.

The average on our exams for General Chemistry were around 60s, I went to my state school so I know where you're coming from. The only thing that kept me going was laughing at how funny it was to see a 60 average coming from everyone trying hard. Organic was painfully hilarious when the average on the first exam was a 45 and 350 kids dropped or switched majors. And physical chem I was about to break down since I never got to multivariable Calculus and well, the course is basically thermodynamics and heat laws pertaining to math among a bunch of other factors. I somehow passed.

 

[ranmaru]

guys we should do ULTIMATE BRAVERY

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Eventually when you get to microbio, a lot of information will unfortunately also be problems based and you will find yourself approach it like chemistry in that theory and problems will give you two sets of information. You can't really read into how to interpret a southern/western blot for instance or where to insert a gene transcript into a sample plasmid for mass production in a bacteria. Also if your school involves anything with batch reactors you are not just doing rate laws all over again except with microorganisms, but you are also accounting for stuff like exhaust, heat, cooling output, and other concepts with chemistry which after I finished, honestly went woosh.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Also despite all this, all those courses weren't as hard as comp sci 101 for me. **** that class. **** that class hard.

Classwork #1: How to do logical maps.

Homework #1: Design a program that will accept a list of numbers, then sort for prime numbers among the list, ask the user if they want the average of all prime numbers, and then calculate the average for those selected values. Roughly paraphrasing.

 

[BSL]

lol #GetRaped

 

[adumbrodeus]

I failed chem in highschool too. Never retook it. No idea how I graduated.

Did you take physics? I skipped chem, did physics, at least in ny you need 3 years of science.