3:40 AM

Ahh , chemistry . The subject everyone hates . Most people fail it . Some don't . Well , my test is this friday and with the HUGE number of classmates being stressed by this subject , I would like to say a few things about it .

First , chemistry is PURELY a subject about MEMORISING . Yes , it sure is . But what makes it so stressful for so many students ? Well , I think that what makes chem so difficult is the fact that we have to memorise so much stuff . For example , how do we prepare Copper(II) Sulfate ? Well , we have to memorise the solubility table and understand it so we that we are alerted to the fact that it is soluble . Then , we have to know which method is suitable to preparing such salts and we thus have to memorise the three different salt preparations . We still have to know what are the two reagents needed and we thus have to know that they are Copper(II) Oxide and Sulfuric Acid . How do we know that ? We have to memorise which types of reagents are needed . Then , how do we prepare Copper (II) Sulfate , we have to memorise the steps .

So , in general , what I'm trying to say that chem is all about memorising stuff ; and this case they are whole loads of different kind of stuff . So , why is chem still so stressful then if it's just about memorising ? There s a need to understand the concepts behind them . Thats this makes this subject become more difficult to master . (Not that I mastered it) But anyway , this brings us back to the fact that we have to be interested in this subject to grasp the concept of it .

So how do I do it so well ? (Or so they say , I'm not trying to boast or anything here .) It's the exact same way how I excel in maths .-. It's simple , I'm extremely interested in chem . Actually , my classmates and parents would know how I actually barely passed my science this year . But how did I get As this year ?

I was just too amazed with the topics this year and with all the lab practices , I began to understand how beautiful chemistry was and how it was all around us . For example , what really reignited the flame of passion for chemistry was the lab experiment of preparing Copper(II) Sulfate . Want to know the reason ? It's because I love blue and Copper(II) is one of the only ions that can form blue precipitates . And the shade of blue was one that I particularly loved and then i decided to experiment more on the different compounds and even found purple ! I love chem mainly because I love the great diversity of colours and how beautiful they are and with this strong interest in chem , I can easily study everything and the things that I study are therefore always ringing in my head .