#yet they were hounding ppl down nonstop every day

[umberandmochaagate]

Look I already knew that stem majors sucked with how badly they want to "weed" people out the programs but the more I sit here working out a problem it's like... Chemistry tests shouldn't have been graded by the whole "one correct answer" model. Like it doesn't even make sense.

How can I really understand why 5-ethyl-2-methyl-3-heptyne is named that way if a quiz just expects me to be right immediately? Especially with how confusing IUPAC is and the fact that you just cannot remember every single element—let alone whole chemical compounds—by name especially especially in the beginning. Imagine getting every single test failed because the professor who spends 45/50 minutes of every class speeding through material and expecting you to practice everything on your own doesn't believe you should get even partial credit for having 5-ethyl-2-methyl-hept-3-yne as an answer. Or that you should just know how to flip around structural formulas for naming despite there being really hard distinctions as to when to consider something a substituent or as part of the chain.

And it's really the shame they love to throw. The "You should know this, you had time to study" even though the concepts are notoriously hard with limited time to actually learn them. As if "you're college students" is a perfect excuse to why 3,3 dimethylpentane isn't 2-ethyl-2-methylbutane to people seeing it for the first time. And it's straight failing people but at the end being like "Oh yeah this is super hard guys a lot of people don't make it especially the first time" knowing damn well transcripts don't say "sorry orgo is really hard lmao give them a chance" and scholarships/aid aren't taking explanation appeals 🙄😒

#passing orgo and calculus are what made me leave #lmao I hate that shit #like the clarity I'm having even in the slightest #you need time to make the mistakes and work on it again to even get the very foundations down #yet they were hounding ppl down nonstop every day #c'mon bro I can't stand so many stem professors and the system for that