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A chemist once told me the two paths that bring people into chemistry are learning how to blow shit up and how to get high. But yes, regardless of those two it
by pstuart 1y ago
A chemist once told me the two paths that bring people into chemistry are learning how to blow shit up and how to get high.
But yes, regardless of those two it should be easy to frame it as a magical adventure.
- le-mark 1y agoI always thought breaking bad should have brought a lot of people into chemistry, but I’ve never seen stats that support that.
- edwardbernays 1y agoI'm one.
- devilbunny 1y agoI was a chemistry major. This is basically true. There was one guy in my class that we all pegged as a recreational pharmacologist within the first week or two of freshman year. He's a good chemist; if he offered me something, I'd trust that it was both pure and exactly what he said it was.
- eszed 1y agoMy chemistry professor was one of those - though he was a professional unlicensed pharmacologist, if you take my meaning. He found (literal) religion, and went on to graduate school. I wish he'd told more stories; his classes were deadly dull.
- devilbunny 1y agoApparently he managed to tell you he had been a drug dealer, so at least one class wasn’t awful?
- eszed 1y agoHeh. I only knew that because my uncle had gone to high school with him - not from anything he ever said! I gathered he let slip some things to chem majors (which I wasn't) in upper division classes, but not much. He was very religious, and I think pretty ashamed of his past.