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[Anonymous No.9055932]

undergraduate chemistry-applied group theory

Fuck off 'oh haha you're so edgy' shills

I had the grand misfortune of once again working my ass off because so much of undergraduate chemistry is just memorization. Two classes; same topic; completely different methods to memorize. I spent all the spare hours I had for weeks trying to understand how the hell group theory worked in chemistry because what I was learning in the two classes were fucking contradicting each other (and the stuff I was reading online was also contradicting everything and itself). I had to self teach it from multiple different sources because it seems as if mathematicians just hand shit over to chemists who just memorize whatever they're told and continually regurgitate to the next generation of memorization specialists.

So anyway, it turns out that group theory can be applied to any system of symmetry, and my two classes (inorganic chem and physical chem) were applying that to two or three different symmetries among molecules (orbitals, atomic vibration, atomic degrees of freedom, etc). When I asked my professor why it's different in his class he just got all snobby (because he doesn't fucking know the answer) and basically told me just to shut up and memorize it as is. Eventually towards the end of the semester more normies finally caught up with the reality that there's something wrong with it because the stuff in the book was also using two different ways and the professor (who relies entirely on the teacher edition of the book for all his knowledge) literally had to admit that he didn't get it. But here I was to save the day, well informed and self taught because I'm not a fucking normie sheep, and I yelled out loud that you have to distinguish the kind of symmetry the question is asking for. The professor in my other class was a british cunt who hated me because he's just a fucking loser who doesn't like non-kiss asses so I never asked him about it.

Can't wait til I finally snap

[Anonymous No.9055945]

>>9055932
10/10 would read this blog again

[Anonymous No.9056203]

>>9055932
>I spent all the spare hours I had for weeks trying to understand how the hell group theory worked in chemistry
lmao kys brainlet

[Anonymous No.9056209]

>>9055932
dont go to group therapy tomorrow

group theory whatever its called

[Anonymous No.9056266]

>>9055932
Undergrad "physicists" are just rote memorization work horses doing book problems. By comparison to undergrad chemists like you who actually are applying and working to put chemistry on more stable mathematical footing, you're doing the hard work and you're actually on the path to contributing something. Good for you.