Gosh--I never even took chemistry!

[chrishansenhome]

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chimica gratia chimicae (or something like that)

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

oh but you see chemistry is the ideal middle road. Neither boring and "why does anyone care" like physics, nor the ickyness of bio -- I must allow, I have far too much squeam to do biological sciences.

We had to watch someone pith the frog (university first year bio), but didn't have to do it ourselves. We did have to dissect the fetal pig, and that was as far as I could go. [we did that in groups of three, and my group made the fatal mistake of naming him. dissecting Fred was traumatic.]

I did microbiology - now that is not bad, quite like chemistry actually. When you're finished with a culture, you drop it in the morgue (actually a big roasting pan half-full of strong antiseptic that kills all the wee beasties off). They don't scream, they don't bleed, they don't have big- sad- puppy- dog- eyes nor look fuzzy'n'cute.

I managed as much calculus as I had to. I can differentiate (er, no, let's be accurate here: I *could* differentiate. This skill is untested in the last 20y), but show me an integral sign and the brains turn to mashed potato. My standard university calculus mark was 53.

Re: chimica gratia chimicae (or something like that)

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

Well, of course, I don't have any idea whether chemistry is either boring or inconsequential--I never took it. And now it's really too late. I've already got too many appetites I can't satify (as the hillbilly said when confronted with his first banana).

Your last paragraph could be written in Syro-Phoenician, for all I know.

Sad, but true.