I just started Chemistry 201 - General Chemistry at Truman College (college #4, for those keeping count). It's three-and-a-half very intense hours every Tuesday and Thursday with an amazing professor (who is a chemistry-inclined, Muslim version of my dad) in a pretty sweet lab/classroom.
It's definitely a few steps up from Chem 121 which I took last semester and earned an A in. There's online homework, more reading, more applications, tougher labs, more critical thinking. I love it.
I don't always love hauling a heavy book (half-price at least on Amazon) all around Chicago, nor do I like eating dinner during our break/at 9:30 p.m. My boss still doesn't know I'm taking classes so I have to tiptoe around that a little bit (it's none of her beeswax).
But I love Chemistry. I love it. I love that my brain is working so hard and I love that I'm becoming smarter. I love feeling tougher, brighter, quicker and (sometimes) busier. I love figuring out stoichometry, how (literally) everything in the world works and how everything in the world is made of the same little atoms with electrons, neutrons and protons (the number of which determine each elements identity, of course).
Love! So, on to Chapter 3 homework...
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