Part of my ISP for chemistry is to find scientific journals online and critique them. This is quite possibly the most worthless assignment ever, because I get questions like "What is the purpose of this experiment? What was the hypothesis? What was the conclusion? Why is this relevant?" but in all the journals I find they generally go like this "We were screwing around and then this happened, and this is what happened: blah blah blah, end of journal"

In school they make us write purpose, materials, abstract, hypothesis, discussion, conclusion, etc... apparently in the real world you don't have to follow any form, and you can just ramble on about irrelevant crap that happened while you were playing in the lab. What a waste of my time.

(The next part of the assignment is to read a romance novel and then discuss an aspect of chemistry in it, what a great project )

your proffesor is a freak isan he?

*bow chicka wow wow*

SHE is a freak. (Yes, she blames our bad marks on not eating proper breakfasts, rather than the fact that she doesn't teach and her assignments are irrelevant.)

yeah, my chemistry teacher is like that, only worse.

if a staff member pisses you off so bad... why complain to massassi when you can complain to your institution?

Maybe she experienced too many chemical fumes in the lab?

But I think lab reports are important things in the real world if you are in a science field as a profession.

Obviously not, because I'm reading professional labs and they don't follow any rules or format, so why should I?

If you think that is strange, they offer a honors class at my uni that is all about "the intersection of film history, chemical history, and the public perception of science."

The assignment is good for you anyway, it gives you experience in finding journals and trying not to fall asleep while reading them (or waiting for them to print with the stupid dot matrix printers at the library).

wine appriciation <3
THAT'S A CLASS!

Yeah, my cousin has a cooking class, where you get to cook and eat food. My school doesn't offer it, it was either chem or family studies for me and... yeah. Chem.

May I make a suggestion? I think you should do a critique of "How Much Is Inside?".

Some of the funniest "scientific" experiments ever done...

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/howmuchinside.html

Maybe you should eat more Fresh Fruits!!

Replace "chemistry" with "physics" and that's the way it was for me. I learned more about Ghandi than physics that year.

damn, a lot of you guys' teachers sound like real f*** ups.

All my teachers were cool... My HS chem teacher was alright, even when I accidentally set a lab table on fire by adding too much sodium to too much water. He even laughed it off when another student asked him how to make crystal meth right in the middle of class one day.

Our Chemistry teacher is AWESOME, and he really likes me and my group of friends, so he lets us play with chemicals, as long as we can find a "scientific purpose" for it.

OH DEAR GOD!!