The Science of Composition
For a few months now, I’ve come to the startling conclusion that Grade 11 Chemistry is a pile of crap. Come, let’s examine this statement.
First of all, the teacher is a lying, anal-retentive, mood-swinging guy. It doesn’t help when ‘the test so big it should be an exam’ takes everybody half an hour to finish. Or how about the ‘informal lab’ that needs to have a purpose, headings and other stuff the man forgot to mention? And of course, the exam outline which didn’t work. And oh, the mood swings. BLAEAARHGH!! just like that. Not looking forward to Grade 12 chem with him.
Next, are the labs. It may just be me, but do we really need to be proving that copper sulfate isn’t blue once you remove the water, iron displaces copper, or that sodium hydroxide turns pink when phenolphthalein is added again? An insane amount of lab work could have been taken straight from last year’s lab results if anyone kept their notes.
Which brings me to handouts. About 90% of the chem handouts are extremely ugly and have no holes for me to put into my binder. By ugly I mean looks like it was printed at 4 dpi. They have those sort of lines across the text that make it kind of hard to read, not to mention about 3921753298 times less attractive. Handouts typed on a Mac from the 90′s are ugly. And chem seems to produce the most sheets of paper with no holes. Math and physics has holes. Music is understandable since it’s non-standard paper. There are no handouts in CS, classics, or English and when there are, there are holes. Chem does not. And chem has these wonderful huge stacks of paper that are unwieldly. Please make our lives easier and put holes on handouts.
It’s not that I hate chem. I like it. I love understanding how chem works and with the theory and calculating stuff. I just hate the class. Just like computer science. Except we can’t play Counterstrike in chem.