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A-a-Ron

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Reading the homebrew forum makes me wish this is how they taught chemistry in school. You guys are a bunch of geniuses! However, who here got through their chemistry class with an A?

I love this section. The mind is a wonderful thing when there is a little drive behind it.
 
Heck, I didn't learn much of anything in school. Wasn't interested at the time. Got by with C's without even trying. School freaking sucked, I participated when I was there was once I got home, that was my time. I like to say I'm self educated. All the info you could need to know is a few mouse clicks away. Learned way more on my own when I was ready and interested. I'm sure you could figure out whatever it is you want to know. And if not that's what a forums for.
 
A's in chemistry but weird thing was I hated it. Now I love the technical side of things but as I'm aging there is less and less for me to do about it
 
I've got all the information. I just find it interesting how everyone finds ways to push past the hurdles in order to perfect brewing techniques when quality, impurities, and other garbage gets in the way. I think this is my favorite forum.
 
Mixing the raws are easy, I agree. It's topics such as removing estrogen, etc, that show where there's a will there's a way.
 
I'm with you @A-a-Ron. I love this part of the forum. I've learned so much already. I had to go to summer school to pass chemistry, and still barely made it. Haha. Luckily, some of these guys break it down so even I can understand. The recrystallization method is interesting as hell. I do wish my mind worked that way, but we all get different gifts.
 
A's in chemistry but weird thing was I hated it. Now I love the technical side of things but as I'm aging there is less and less for me to do about it
Yeah chemistry should be interesting but they make it a bore with all the math. They had a class called chem-com, which was basically chemistry without all the excessive math equations. Found it much more interesting. There was nothing I hated more than having to memorize formulas. In real life you don't have to memorize all that stuff, you're going to have it available or more likely it's going to be built in to the scientific calc or computer your using. You forget that crap in a few months of not using it anyway. I know someone who went to college and majored in chemistry. They decided to work in a completely unrelated field. Told me if you don't have at least a masters degree (chemistry major) your going to be stuck doing boring repeative lab tech stuff with just a bachelors.
 
Yeah chemistry should be interesting but they make it a bore with all the math. They had a class called chem-com, which was basically chemistry without all the excessive math equations. Found it much more interesting. There was nothing I hated more than having to memorize formulas. In real life you don't have to memorize all that stuff, you're going to have it available or more likely it's going to be built in to the scientific calc or computer your using. You forget that crap in a few months of not using it anyway. I know someone who went to college and majored in chemistry. They decided to work in a completely unrelated field. Told me if you don't have at least a masters degree (chemistry major) your going to be stuck doing boring repeative lab tech stuff with just a bachelors.
Ya I took chemistry in high school and got a B, and the math really bored the hell out of me too, and only engineering calculus was the devil.
 
Ya I took chemistry in high school and got a B, and the math really bored the hell out of me too, and only engineering calculus was the devil.
I never took math that far. It's too bad cause I have a feeling a would have liked statistics. I love the way they cut through the b.s. and tell u what's really going on.
 
I never took math that far. It's too bad cause I have a feeling a would have liked statistics. I love the way they cut through the b.s. and tell u what's really going on.
Ohhh statistics drove me batty in college
 
Ohhh statistics drove me batty in college
Of course the possibiltity exists that the class may not be at all what I expect. Which is likely. Maybe I'll pick up a textbook and check it out. What drove me nuts about math was solving unknown variables. Seems to me in real like things are measurable and quantifiable. So playing with imaginary numbers seems mostly like a brain exercise, I guess.
 
I never took math that far. It's too bad cause I have a feeling a would have liked statistics. I love the way they cut through the b.s. and tell u what's really going on.
Statistics was actually easy for me. Its only a handful of formulas. Once you figure out when to use them, it's a piece of cake. It's basic math disguised in a complicated shell.
The formulas were what killed me in chemistry. If I couldn't visualize the results, it didn't make sense. I actually got better in math in general once I got out of school and applied it my own way. The one size fits all method of teaching really does the world a disservice.
 
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