Recent content by kevinzak

I may have misrepresented myself a little. I am not dead set on going to Stanford or Harvard. I was simply trying to get a realistic idea of where I stood. University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a fantastic school and it's definitely in the running. I had a few other schools that I feel I have a very...

Wow, I really have no shot? I figured it would be difficult but the two admissions office staff at Harvard really made it sound like a solid set of essays and recommendations would give me a pretty good shot. I realize mailings mean nothing but I have been getting a lot of information from Ivy...

I visited Harvard this summer and fell in love with the atmosphere. A lot of really cool people and opportunities. Stanford is similar but I have always wanted to go there since I first got interested in comp sci. I know that whichever program I end up in will be fantastic and challenging and...

I live in small-town Nebraska. We don't have an AP program here. I have consistently taken the hardest courseload I could throughout high school, but obviously that doesn't look as good as AP courses. We don't even have a calculus course, or anything above conceptual physics. I started doing...

I have been on the fence between computer science, chemistry, and physics as my planned area of study for quite some time now. I am fairly certain I am ready to narrow it down to physics, but now I'm wondering how I'm doing in terms of the likelihood I can get into top-notch school such as...

Hmm, then my textbook is simply incorrect in it's wording of the problem? I copied the problem verbatim, and it definitely says find the enthalpy of formation for that reaction.

Hello! I am a high school senior taking an advanced chemistry course. I have been working on this problem for two days straight, and cannot figure out our error. Here is the problem we are given: Calculate the standard enthalpy of formation for the reaction HCL (g) + NH3 (g) ---> NH4CL (s)...