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I remember my friends complaining about how the organic chemistry part of the MCAT was the most stressful and frustrating.
 
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GMJ said:
Well, boom. I see that the solvent is protic and a weak nucleophile: I'll try a unimolecular elimination reaction. Well after I form an alkene, mess around with resonance contributors, and even bust out a 1,2 methyl shift
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Clearly.
 
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The first day you think it won't be that bad, since you're scrapping the entire periodic table from general chemistry for about 5 or 6 atoms, that's it.

Then the sodium hydroxides of gen. chem. become the (E4R,5R) 4-methoxy-5-phenyl-2-hexene...I had to draw that today, and yes, if you gave the (Z4R,5R), (E4S,5R), (Z4R,5S) versions, etc...it would be wrong :(
 
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Chutney said:
I remember my friends complaining about how the organic chemistry part of the MCAT was the most stressful and frustrating.
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I'm switching (upgrading) teachers between semesters. Apparently I soiled by not getting this guy in the first semester. He's got the best reputation as the top OChem teacher, and will get you good and ready for the MCATs.

Red flag? The class meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:30am. WOOT
 
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GMJ said:
The first day you think it won't be that bad, since you're scrapping the entire periodic table from general chemistry for about 5 or 6 atoms, that's it.

Then the sodium hydroxides of gen. chem. become the (E4R,5R) 4-methoxy-5-phenyl-2-hexene...I had to draw that today, and yes, if you gave the (Z4R,5R), (E4S,5R), (Z4R,5S) versions, etc...it would be wrong :(
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I can relate. :sigh:
 
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#1_War_Poet_ForLife said:
I can relate. :sigh:
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GMJ said:
Then the sodium hydroxides of gen. chem. become the (E4R,5R) 4-methoxy-5-phenyl-2-hexene...I had to draw that today, and yes, if you gave the (Z4R,5R), (E4S,5R), (Z4R,5S) versions, etc...it would be wrong :(
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Clearly.
 
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Денг Гордон said:
I'm just taking Physics for my lab science and that's it.
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Yeah I still need to finish off my physics requirement and biology requirement too. Luckily I've already done Bio2 before bio1, so it should be a walk in the park. After that, I can finally settle back, finish off my psych major with one more class, and dick around with easy A classes. I haven't had one of those in a while.
 
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JCB said:
Clearly.
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Don't let me scare you away. It's actually pretty fun. I haven't enjoyed myself from this much of a challenge since I took AP Calc in high school.

Unfortunately this late in my psych major, a lot of stuff gets repeated between classes and so I can get by through intuition and what's now general knowledge. It feels good to get on the grind again, the good burn.
 
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Did good on my oral. Now I just need to get some type of good grade on my Econ exam, and I'll have a 4.0 for this semester.
 
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GMJ said:
HUGE epic win

So hour 4 out of 6 for my finals today began my orgo test. After going through two pages of nomenclature I get to a mechanism problem, where you are given the products, solvent, and reactant of a reaction and have to show how it happens. This is a bit harder than it might seem, because you have to follow the problem on the electron level, and have to use arrows to show how they move about, and how the compounds change to get to some final product you have to figure out. Problem: I have no idea what the fuck I'm looking it. While the final products share the general cyclohexane structure, the hydrocarbon chains are way different, and what's worse: there are alkenes in different parts of the compound! Great, I have to take one compound and get two completely different things, and the substrates are really foreign. Our teacher likes to use his own shorthand, so I'm looking at what I think is methoxy but...yikes...This was not one of the 30 reactions I studied for the final. After staring at this thing for like 20 minutes I give up and move on to the rest of the exam, I'll come back later.

Well this test was the hardest sonovabitch I've ever taken in my life. It made you submit to some form of helplessness, and yet while you recognized you were at it's mercy it provided enough stimulation to keep the faith. Ridiculously hard...I think 1/4 of the class didn't finish. I barely got to the end in time: I had taken 2 hours and I had 15 minutes left. Shit. I still had that mechanism problem to figure out, and not answering it or throwing some BS together would knock off 20% points from my grade. Doo doo.

Well, boom. I see that the solvent is protic and a weak nucleophile: I'll try a unimolecular elimination reaction. Well after I form an alkene, mess around with resonance contributors, and even bust out a 1,2 methyl shift...I nailed it. Huge win, and a great way to end the semester. I went to a 6 hour review session that started at 8am yesterday, pulled an all nighter, and even crammed for 3 hours in between finals. Looks like it paid off.
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Awesome man, nice summary too. The only thing I can't relate to is how damn early some of your classes are. This semester I considered a class starting before noon as Early. :O
 
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Max that avy looks a bit...muddled. Is that a word?
 
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I'm going Bed in a bit. Might stick around for a bit though ;)
 
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I'm taking an upper division psych class over the winter break. It starts the 30th, is completely online, and is only 17 days long. I get 3 credits for it. Win.
 
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I found a picture of Shake

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