/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8114698
>humans love to tell themselves lies
Anon it's not considered a lie if you really believed it. We've only had evidence of free will's non-existence for a relatively brief time. For the other tens of thousands of years where we've been actively asserting it, we couldn't have known any better.

Analytical chemistry as a field is lame as fuck. I love using mass spectrometry and I love getting fantastic separations, but these are things that many fields (within and outside of chemistry) use and master. Bioorganic/inorganic chemists do that stuff too. So do materials chemists, and physical chemists.

Being an "analytical chemist" therefore means more than just what I mentioned; it means fucking around with method development and error and other autistic shit. I'd like to point out that analytical chemists know very little actual chemistry, in the sense that they rarely think on a molecular level.

I pity my anal chem friend doing his PhD in it, he spends all his time repairing and optimising machines, and doesn't end up doing much interesting work.

I'm in favour of abolishing it as an undergraduate endeavour, because anything you learn from it at that level is also learned from other disciplines.

It also has the dumbest job prospects, nobody wants to willingly work in QC