[AT] Old trains/now NC State foolishness

[David Bruce]

I was in "faux" chemistry  (Textile Chemistry) so I had the joy of 
taking several more classes in the "real" chemistry department under the 
pressure of being the "enemy".  It got so bad that after I finished the 
year of organic chemistry the TC department started teaching all their 
own chemistry classes beyond chem 101/107.    Like Charlie I came from a 
smaller HS and didn't have access to physics.  The only difference 
between his days in chem 101 and mine are by my day the slide rule was 
replaced with a calculator.  Same concept with the tests (I took mine in 
Dabney Hall - the chemistry building) multiple guess with the most 
likely wrong answers as choices.  Chem 101 was my first college class 
and the lecture hall held more people than were in my graduating class 
in HS - talk about culture shock.

David
NW NC
Al Jones wrote:
> When I came along in the '90s Chem 101 and 103 (the lab) were still very much weed-out courses.  I lucked up, my major only required Chem 100..."Chemistry for poets" the professor called it.  There was no lab and it was easier than high school chemistry. (We had a really good high school chem teacher when I came along.)  But, we still have to take our tests with the rest of the whole department outside of class---on a SATURDAY morning.
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> I always thought the folks in the chemistry dept. at NCSU was a little too big for their britches.
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> The worst class I ever had though was botany.  We had a grad. student that taught the lab that thought she knew everything and had to tell us about it.  The labs on either side of us would always get done 45 minutes to an hour before we did because she wouldn't shut up and just give us the assignment.  Dr. VanDyke taught the class and spent more time talking to us about his wood duck carvings than he did teaching botany, yet everybody thought he was wonderful but me.  Managed a "C" and was proud of it.
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