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CincyDem

(6,338 posts)
1. And let's be clear - chemistry in general is tough but...
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 07:24 PM
Dec 2018


...imho, physical chemistry is MaxPain. Apologies to all those analytical and organic chemists. They were breeze classes compared to P.Chem. What a crazy maker. That the guys (yes, it was all guys at my school in the 70's) with p.chem PhDs...holy chit on a stick, they were f'ing geniuses.

So yeah, that look comes from a hell of an intellect.

leftieNanner

(15,068 posts)
3. My daughter is getting her PhD in Physical Chem
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 07:34 PM
Dec 2018

she sends me her papers when they are published and I can't get past the executive summary! Funny - she says she thinks organic is way harder than P Chem.

She wants to teach at a small college - not just do big university research - and become a mentor for her students.

And, yes, we are extremely proud of her.

Ivanka is a moron.

volstork

(5,399 posts)
4. Someone in my apartment building in med school
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 07:58 PM
Dec 2018

had a bumper sticker that said, "Honk if you passed P. Chem." Max pain is right.

CincyDem

(6,338 posts)
11. Absolutely...I got a 24 and panicked until I learned the average was 17.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 09:52 PM
Dec 2018


The only thing worse was p.Chem II cuz it came with a lab. holy chit and a half. lol

Paka

(2,760 posts)
10. As a graduate student in Microbiology,
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 09:41 PM
Dec 2018

I negotiated heavily to get out of P. Chem. I heard all the horror stories and believed them.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
13. It is hard, but certainly not impossible.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:26 PM
Dec 2018

I took both P-Chem and Organic Chemistry in college. I did well, but it was a brutal amount of work to get those results. I certainly am no genius by a country mile.

ffr

(22,665 posts)
2. The one pictured on the left is definitely the elitist.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 07:34 PM
Dec 2018

Basically a self entitled princess who a fraction of the public celebrate for her looks only.

alwaysinasnit

(5,060 posts)
5. Yup. The little girl thinks she can play with the grown-ups. If only she knew how much contempt most
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 08:07 PM
Dec 2018

of the world has for her and her whole family.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
12. Why is she even fucking there?!?
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:08 PM
Dec 2018

At best, Iskanka is a distraction from daddy dearest. At worst, she represents America’s most embarrassing, most despicable!

To think that my hard-earned tax dollars are being spent on her travel and (high) maintenance is horrendous! She deserves the same fate — imprisonment and financial reparations — as the rest of her family. I just hope to live long enough to see Schadenfreude or karma visited upon this whole clan!

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
14. She covers for her dad during "serious" policy discussions.
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 10:28 PM
Dec 2018

It is sort of like having an idiot sit in for a moron.

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