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Re:What I Learned from Two Years of Teaching High School CS by bee_rider on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:44AM (#36356489)
Chemistry pissed me off. We spent like 3 months learning all these arcane and arbitrary combinations, and then it turns out there are some algebra-like equations at the end that you can just compute your way through.

I’m sure I missed something important because all the memorization was super annoying and so I basically checked out, but I regret nothing and revel in my ignorance of the topic. Chemistry, ugh, may as well be alchemy as far as I’m concerned.

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Re:What I Learned from Two Years of Teaching High School CS by the_only_law on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:04AM (#36356770)
I’ve found channels like a NileRed to be incredibly interesting and pique my interest in chemistry years too late.

But I hated HS chemistry class. Of course we never did any sort of cool experiments, most of what I remember is tediously drawing models of different atoms.

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