IT’S JUST A LIST OF STUPID INFORMATION that makes NO SENSE there is NO ORDER there is NO LOGIC there are “rules” that DON’T WORK it’s all LOOKS THE SAME everything LOOKS THE SAME it’s like a line of unrelated numbers!!! But I’d take the numbers over chemistry any time because it’s doesn’t GIVE YOU FALSE HOPE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN and DESTROY IT
THINGS I HATE THE MOST IN THIS WORLD:
- BEING A TRANNY
- SULFUR
- NITROGEN
- GENOCIDE
- RAPE
- OXIDATION STATES
- THE GOVERNMENTS
- CHEMISTRY
- HUMAN TRAFFICKING
- HALOGENS
Picrel is ME when I see CHEMISTRY
To start with I liked the idea of chemistry from a young age, which acted as a seed for me to think anything about chemistry was interesting and worthy of learning in school.
Chemistry is about materials and processes which are things that I like and are what are taught in school, but it’s also about the practical applications and I love learning about those. For example, there is Nitrogen with it’s property of occurring naturally as a triple-bonded diatomic molecule with itself, and that that bond with itself is quite strong (compared to oxygen which readily combusts or the halogens which really don’t want to stay together.) To tie this property into a practical idea, we can think of the Haber-Borsch process to produce ammonia (NH3) from Nitrogen (N2) and Hydrogen (H2) gas. While ammonia is thermodynamically favorable to form, it takes a large amount of energy and a catalyst to break the Nitrogen’s bond in order for the reaction to proceed, thus it’s a very energy intensive process that uses 2% of humanity’s global energy consumption.
So, I suppose what I like about it is the constellation of properties, processes, things, and ideas that interconnect and make you think about how you might use them together to accomplish something.
It’s physics that I didn’t like as much. It’s still interesting and there’s a lot of overlap, but I hated memorizing formulas and like yeah it’s good to know principles like the conservation of angular momentum but do I really care to hold all the associated formulas in my head? Motion is also just less interesting to me than transformation idk it seems like a bit of a personality test.
Why do you actually hate chemistry? What do you actually like?
I love biology… Living beings are so cool and complicated in an interesting way. Evolution abides by rules, energy transforms according to rules too. The way organs all interact with each other in perfect tune, how everything is interconnected, how the being is connected to its environment and other beings is such a beautiful system.
I like math and physics too because (again) they abide by rules. Rules of physics are not formulas and don’t exist on paper. They are what makes up the universe. Everything is kinda the same. Matter is just energy packed in a way that makes it look differently.
Math is like a wonderland. There is no past and future. Every value can be represented through another value. For example the area of a rectangle is a number, constituted of two multipled numbers. There are infinite rectangles because there are infinite numbers. Even the same area of a rectangle can be represented through an infinite amount of slimmer or wider rectangles.
Circles are just perfect. They are beautiful in a transcendental way, I don’t even know how to put that into words. It’s one value (radius) stretched across an infinite amount of directions. It’s like an infinity inside one object. Circles and spheres are perfectly symmetrical. You just can’t rotate them like a square or triangle because they are in all states of rotation at the same time. They are infinitely useful too. Probably sounds like nonsense😅
I don’t like chemistry because it’s too chaotic and there are too many exceptions 😔 there is no order and I like when things have order. I like it when I understand something intuitively. But with chem I just have to memorize a bunch of bullshit that makes no sense. No offense but I see it that way
Chemistry follows mathematical principles too, but it’s statistics and probability rather than desecrate math. The discrete parts of chemistry are observational, and then the rules are made to describe a trend. Much like a linear regression trend line, the rules don’t perfectly describe every situation, but that’s what makes chemistry so fun- you can make anything can happen with enough effort. It’s more exciting than physics where it’s like “This is the Carnot engine cycle- it’s cool but this is the most efficient engine cycle there will ever be.” Maybe the fun in physics starts with the unsolved problems? I think it really is a personality test in the end.
I learned thermodynamics with chemistry even though it’s basically physics, but I liked that. Thinking of thermodynamics as a statistical distribution, and entropy as a system moving towards more statistically likely states was helpful and intuitive to me. The actual physics classes I took were classical physics.
I was very pleased with using infinite rectangles to calculate the area under a curve when learning limits and integrals, so I also understand the appeal of pure math.
Biology is fun as well, and it has a bit of everything doesn’t it? I liked taxonomy, but there wasn’t anything in biology that was very moving to me even if there were lots of interesting things.
I also like economics, which is mathematical certainly even worse for being chaotic. Nothing more random than human behavior.
No offense taken, but also skill issue if it doesn’t make sense? I sucked at physics and it was certainly a skill issue.
The problem is if I write the more statistically probable answer in the answer sheet it will be wrong because the trend is correct most of the time, and the times where it’s not correct I have to MEMORIZE
Yes it’s a personality test.
And yes it’s a skill issue.
And my issue is skill. I’m lacking skill. But I don’t want skill… I just want everything to make sense… :(