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>"I entered college as a materials science major, took up to organic chemistry, said fuck this and switch to CS." Rumor has it, this is precisely why Organic C
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
>"I entered college as a materials science major, took up to organic chemistry, said fuck this and switch to CS."
Rumor has it, this is precisely why Organic Chemistry has the reputation for being brutally difficult throughout the university system, as it is meant to filter out students early on in their studies.
- djmips 4y agoYeah, maybe they would have been a brilliant materials scientist. I think they are justifying their decision with this talk about 'killing someone' - I feel that's way overblown.
- mjhay 4y agoThat's definitely the idea with a lot of these classes, but I think it filters out a lot of people who'd be great in chemistry or other STEM fields, but can't deal with lots of rote memorization and such. One of the best programmers I know originally was going to do chemistry, but inorganic chemistry pretty much gave him a mental breakdown and he switched to the liberal arts. Of course he naturally gravitated back into quantitative things (no formal CS education), but that was a lot of wasted education and prime 20's work years.