Chemistry

Stuff I've heard in Chemistry 6AH, Fall Quarter 2000

"2 rules:
1. Don't Tick off your TA
2. Don't tick off the instructor"
(9/22/2000)

"..you get an appreciation for how freakin' smart these people were."
(with regards to laws of chemical combination.)
(9/25/2000)

"It sucks no matter what book it is in."
"Makes no freaking sense"
(with regards to Law of multiple proportions)
(9/25/2000)

"having a bunch of rambunctious kids that hate each other in the same room without a supervisor
(describing isotopes)
(9/27/2000)

"Thermo will kick your butt.
(he said this while hopping and kicking air...)"
(9/29/2000)

(Describing bonds.....)
"Ionic- you with your parents"
"Covalent- when you get married"
"Coordinate covalent - like living with somebody"
(10/2/2000)

"You'd better be careful when you ask questions....sometimes you'll get a 25 cent answer for a five cent question."
(10/11/2000)

"Average is about 50 %.....I've already begun working on the next test question which you'll never get..."
(always a nice thing to hear about a midterm)
(10/26/2000)

"Ideal gas is a bull**** idea."
(10/26/2000)

Chemist humor - "Ba(NA)2 -> BaNaNa"
(10/20/2000)

"You can make everclear in O-chem"
(distillation....and he refused to show us how to make vodka....)
(11/1/2000)

(In regards to the second to the second midterm....)
"Freakin impossible", "even harder","...with a reasonable amount of study you can get at least 40 pts."
(11/1/2000)

"If you're a math nut, you'll go ape**** for quantum mechanics...if you're of the more civil bend, then quantum mechanics will confuse you."
(12/1/2000)

"Organic (chemistry) is like being blind for 30 weeks then someone opens the window."
(12/1/2000)