Recent content by arrowpusher96

Who told you the English was hard? Everybody I know(including myself) who was decently strong in english did well on it. I studied for the math SAT only and did far better in English than math. Go buy yourself(Drop the $20, it's very worth it.) a copy of the official College Board Study...

Chemical engineering majors divert from chemistry courses to chem engineering courses after ochem; you'd probably have to start-over there and take all the engineering and math requirements.

If you just want to "build missiles", don't do anything. You don't go into giant fields with the purpose of designing one specific device(Not to mention already highly-perfected killing machines!). You should go into engineering because you like engineering, not missiles. Go drink some...

As others have said, you don't need an associate's, but they are seen preferably. I've seen people waste a lot of time getting them, because they're advised to, but often times they take many unnecessary classes. I'd highly, highly recommend looking at the requirements for the degree you want...

If anybody tells you it's too late, they're wrong. Very wrong. No, you won't go to MIT. That's fine. Barely scraping by at a "big-name" school is not nearly as good as getting good grades at a big, no-name state school. Not to mention, if you do well in community college(assuming your state...

Hello, Given essentially unlimited time and financial support, what do you think would be the best courses an aspiring physicist should take undergrad to be best prepared(Other than the normal CM,EM,QM,etc.)to become a researcher in experimental physics? I've been working on a chemistry major...

Fair enough. Id say the problem is that learning SN1+2, E1+2, electrophillic aromatic substitution, nucleophillic aromatic substitution, etc is good, learning to define automatically, predict order of acidity, decern basicity and nucleophillicity and what not is good. What much of the book is...

Things were committed based on what exactly? I love organic chemistry; did you see my username? I have as good an understanding of orgo as anybody half way through second semester ochem. That doesn't detract from the fact that there are many, many things they sort of gloss over because...

"Inferior course in organic chemistry". Thanks for the help. I appreciate it. Yes-I completely, 100% agree ochem is taught wrong, is mostly simplified versions of more complex physics and I would/will appreciate it more when I learn more physics. Please, don't attack my "institution" however...

1) I agree 100%, much of organic is just shoving rxn mechanisms down your throat so you can say you could figure out how to synthesize xy and z, which you couldn't because they don't teach the actual lab procedures(They may do 1 friedel crafts alkylation or whatever in lab for some of the major...

Definitely true about the papers, however if there's no harm done I don't see why not doing either. Most researchers love to talk about their research.

There is no such help avaliable... "people could cheat". I understand that grad school admission is based on grades and test scores, my question is assuming I get straight A's moving forward, how much of a scar will some community college classes and o chem 2 leave after I complete...

New here, been enjoying reading around. Sorry I don't have much to give in the knowledge department. My question is probably the 100th like this in the last month, but it's kinda a special situation. So here goes: (I don't know how pertinent this is, but that's part of the question.)...