Organic Chemistry in the Design of New Materials and Devices
Organic chemistry is the study of the structure, properties, and reactions of...
It’s that time of year again. You are probably either just starting or continuing your ongoing battle studying organic chemistry. Here are some things that will ensure your success if you follow them religiously. What is the danger? Falling Behind. Avoid that at all costs. These tips for studying organic chemistry obviously apply to all your other subjects to boot. Those’ll become relatively nothing in terms of effort compared to this.
Do just two or three of the following and you’re going to have issues. If you can do them all, or get help when you are having problems, you will transform into one of the brethren! Okay, okay you don’t want to be a chemist and just want to pass. People decide they will be happy just to pass when they see no results from their efforts. When it’s perceived as more trouble than it’s worth, it’s not a long road to that feeling of resignation. Do not go there. The process of learning organic chemistry can be simpler, more methodical, and less stressful if you just do the following.
There is no question about it. If you succeed at most of these you will ace and thus probably love organic chemistry. If you don’t you will whine and complain which changes nothing.
Work all the problems. …What’s that?? All of them? Impossible! It is possible if your continual accumulation of basic fundamentals is consistent enough. Do one problem a day perfectly. Can you solve a different type of problem each day? If the answer is no, you are falling behind and this class is probably not for you along with everything that demands it.
Well, anyway, the preceding is what high-quality students usually do. If you aren’t doing those things, you are just going through the motions in a truly competitive environment and your grades will already reflect that. Of course, if you didn’t care and weren’t a good student, you wouldn’t be here reading this. It doesn’t mean you aren’t studying organic chemistry, it means there is a simple but fundamental issue that is causing confusion.
Well, there are people who attempt to do all the preceding, who ace their other classes, and attempt to ace Organic Chemistry in earnest yet often still fail to keep up. If that is you, then we have found each other. I’ve found it is often some of the most intelligent people who have the biggest difficulties in the subject. It’s a difference of mindset.
There’s one and only one reason for otherwise intelligent students not “getting it”. And it is this: No one, not your book, your professor, or anybody has truly explained it to you; especially at your pace. That doesn’t mean slowly, it means at the pace where you can move forward in the proper sequence. This is personal and varies between every person.
Most of all, you have yet to reach to point where you can explain it to yourself. See the Philosophy of Organic Chemistry.
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