Believe me, I do understand the importance behind Organic Chemistry lab. It puts everything you've learned in lecture into perspective, and it's one of the few classes that actually shows you how individuals use the information that you're taught within a classroom out in the real world. It requires a lot of patience, as well as a lot of insight, and accuracy. While I do feel as though I've learned a lot from it, entering my second semester of Organic Chemistry Lab, I can't help but think the following.
Before Lab:
1. OK, I should probably familiarize myself with the next lab.
2. Let's see what my partner is doing.
3. *Simultaneously complain about lab*
4. OK. let's read the manual.
5. How do they trust someone like me near a chemical with those safety hazards.
6. I hope I don't die in there.
7. Oh, this doesn't seem too bad at all.
8. Okay, yep, I could definitely do that.
9. But just in case, let me watch a video on YouTube of someone else performing this experiment.
10. Yep, just as I thought. Simple.
11. I'm so ready.
12. Tomorrow this is going to be over.
13. I'm going to have a whole week before worrying about it again.
During Lab:
14. This is not as easy as it sounded.
15. There's a good chance I just used a wrong compound, but I'm just going to try and play it off.
16. I poured too much of this acid into the flask. *Looks around* *Pours it back into the bottle*
17. Which of the 16 waste bottles do I discard this into?
18. Why is there a garbage can for just gloves?
19. Crap, how long was my glove ripped.
20. OK, my finger is turning orange.
21. Is this something I should be worried about?
22. Should I ask my professor about this?
23. This is not how I want to die.
24. How does one actually know what he or she is doing here?
25. They look so composed.
26. They have to be pretending.
27. There's no way.
28. I really hope we finish before the full three hours pass.
*5 minutes left until the full three hours pass*
29. Wow, can't we have a little more time?
30. How is someone supposed to do this in just three hours?
31. Aren't TA's supposed to be lenient?
32. HOW DO PEOPLE DO THIS FOR A LIVING?
33. I can't wait to never see the inside of a lab again.
34. Of course, we messed up.
35. Oh, we have to redo it next week?
36. OH, we have to redo it next week, and ALSO start the next experiment?
37. OH, AND WE ONLY HAVE THREE HOURS AGAIN?
38. This is good.
39. Isn't lab supposed to be an easy A?
40. Whoever claims to like this is lying.
41. I think this lab gave me a fever.
After Lab:
42. Great, now I have to somehow write a lab report.
43. I wish I knew what we did during our last lab.
44. Maybe if I wait until the last possible second to start this lab report, it will all come to me.
45. WHY DID MY LAB REPORT SHOW 60 PERCENT PLAGIARISM?
