Loved chemistry in high school. Funky colors, strange smeels, getting my hands dirty, occasionally blowing stuff up, etc. Plus my high school Chem teacher was accident prone so there was always the chance for a good show.
Realized I wasn't the most accurate lab hand, (a pinch of this and a bit of that works fine for cooking dinner, but not for making chemicals) so I diverted to chemical engineering for college. Figured it would help me keep all my fingers and still have fun.
Hated organic chemistry in college. Had an old school teacher. Lots of memorization, very dry and dull. Alkanes, Alykenes and Keytones didn't excite me. The irony is my roommate, who was a bio major, passed easily. I struggled to get through, despite extra help. The lab was even worse than the lectures. Barley passed.
It go so bad, I took an extra inorganic chemistry class to meet my degree requirements.
So do we have any chemists / chemical engineers on this forum?
Same here, 20k in loans, paid off in 6 months by staying with parents. Took me extra year to finish. Was was pre med, then chem, then chem eng. Though most of my classmates went into IT right after. So many chem E have changed into IT. In chem E you are fighting dwindling job market due to manufacturing exodus.
They have kept IT, though I thought they might export that also for lower cost.
I've dabbled in programming, over the years and even done basic hardware swapouts and pc builds, but I think I'd go crazy if I did IT full time.
Thankfully there are still Chem Eng jobs to be had. I'm almost lying biased, but it's a fairly versatile degree. Many mechanical roles could be filled by a Chem E due to the crossover of skill sets and vice versa.
I came out with almost $100,000 in loans. Probably the only thing I would have done differently is play the financial aid game a bit better. I have under $15,000 left to pay off (I'm on the slow and low plan at 2% interest rate) but from what I keep reading, Biden may wipe put the majority of that... not that I need or even want the handout.
Loved chemistry in high school. Funky colors, strange smeels, getting my hands dirty, occasionally blowing stuff up, etc. Plus my high school Chem teacher was accident prone so there was always the chance for a good show.
Realized I wasn't the most accurate lab hand, (a pinch of this and a bit of that works fine for cooking dinner, but not for making chemicals) so I diverted to chemical engineering for college. Figured it would help me keep all my fingers and still have fun.
Hated organic chemistry in college. Had an old school teacher. Lots of memorization, very dry and dull. Alkanes, Alykenes and Keytones didn't excite me. The irony is my roommate, who was a bio major, passed easily. I struggled to get through, despite extra help. The lab was even worse than the lectures. Barley passed.
It go so bad, I took an extra inorganic chemistry class to meet my degree requirements.
So do we have any chemists / chemical engineers on this forum?