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3940190

Anonymous Sat Oct 22 21:38:54 2011 No.3940190 [Reply] [Original]

> That feeling when you finally begin to understand molecular orbital theory.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 21:44:54 2011 No.3940235 I really really know that feel

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 21:48:54 2011 No.3940261 File: 103 KB, 740x555, horse_f_this.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 21:52:54 2011 No.3940291 >>3940261 > Biologist

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 21:54:54 2011 No.3940298 I just started this shit in my chem class and I'm so confused.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:02:54 2011 No.3940339 >>3940298 Getting used to it is like getting used to anal. MO will only make sense (within the narrow range required for your specialty) with repeated beatings throughout your undergrad/grad education.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:05:54 2011 No.3940359 File: 10 KB, 180x284, JimCarrey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3940261 >2011 >Not appreciating Inorganic Chemistry >mfw

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:08:54 2011 No.3940370 Being an inorganic chemist is literally giving up any chance for pussy ever again (provided you were lucky enough as a chem major to get any in the first place).

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:09:54 2011 No.3940375 File: 4 KB, 126x96, 1283995545013.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that feel when your classmates struggle to understand certain concepts, yet you understand it like it's page 1 of an introductory book for babbys

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:10:54 2011 No.3940380 >>3940370 lol.... yeah....

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:10:54 2011 No.3940381 >>3940375 > Zoology major

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:14:54 2011 No.3940406 File: 38 KB, 358x540, physicists.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Isn't this just basic quantum mechanics?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:15:54 2011 No.3940410 >>3940406 Chemistry is just applied quantum mechanics

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:26:54 2011 No.3940484 Hurr durr Linear combinations of atomic orbials

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 22 22:28:54 2011 No.3940498 >>3940410 Yes and no. I'm a chemist, and appreciate physical chemistry/quantum mechanics (learned all about it as an undergrad), but I never use it on a day-to-day basis. Only its basic principles like spectroscopy, but mostly empirically.