So I spent the past seven weeks taking both semesters of
organic chemistry. And it was one heck of a time had by all.
Having gone through all that, I think I would recommend
taking it over the summer for other people. You manage to get the class over
with fairly quickly, and you learn it all so fast that you can’t forget most
things in that short amount of time. It probably means that there are less
tests as well.
But that also means that you have a test every week and are
doing a lot of work packed into a short amount of time, especially if you’re
taking the lab as well. Honestly, there isn’t really a point unless you take
the lab with the course because that’s really what grad schools and med schools
are looking for.
(A word about the lab: I have yet to hear of a chem
department anywhere that actually does a decent job of integrating the lab with
the lecture and managing it well and all that. As far as I can tell, they
always cover different material and the lab portion takes up an absurd amount
of time relative to how much that grade is actually worth. Ugh.)
I was worried that missing out on a summer internship would
be bad for my future endeavors and all that, but I have been working in a lab
during the year and have worked in a few labs over previous summers, so I don’t
think it’ll hurt too much.
I ended up here mostly because I’m going abroad and didn’t
have the room in my schedule for it during the year, but it turned out ok and I
survived, so there’s that. See if it works for you!
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