...because ranting before a test is better than taking shots before a test

Why do I care so much? Why do I always strive to be the best? Why do I get upset over a bad grade in a subject I HATE? Why do I spend my life studying for this stupid class when I will NEVER USE IT AGAIN. I'm serious. Organic Chemistry is the biggest waste of my time. Oh, but you say I will use it for Medical School? FALSE. I will see about 10% of what I learned in a year of Organic Chemistry in a very simplified form on the MCAT, and then that's it. I will not need to recite the Diels-Alder reaction while talking with a patient, nor will I have to recall the directing effects of substituents while drawing blood, and I will most certainly not need to complete a synthesis problem before I scrub in for a surgery, or in my case, an autopsy. I just don't understand why my school insists on making Organic Chemistry impossible for everyone except for the freakish geniuses who only chose here because Harvard and Yale didn't offer them enough money. Yes, I'm talking about those people who get a 99 on the test (and apologize that their work was subpar on this one, and that they'll just use it for their drop test) when the average is BELOW A 50. I'm sorry, professors, is that what you want? The average to be below a 50. No, they will answer, we wanted it around a 50, because that gives us a nice bell curve. Okay, so sure, your theory is fine. Bell curves look great on statistics. But wouldn't you rather your students succeed? Wouldn't you rather your students have confidence in themselves? Wouldn't you rather see your students go on to be doctors and pharmacists and other medical professionals? No, probably not, because you're a bunch of sadists. I hate you. All of you. And why? Is it because you're causing my GPA to be low and possibly be the reason I get kicked out of the honors program? Oh no, that's just the tip of the iceberg. I hate Organic Chemistry and everything it represents and everyone involved in it because I have lost complete confidence in myself because of this course. It doesn't have to be this hard, and I promise that in most places, it's not. But since you insist on making it incredibly difficult (to the point that your GRADUATE STUDENTS cannot solve some of the test problems) I don't know what I want to do with my life anymore. I always thought I wanted to be in medicine. Always. And I still want to be there, still want to do what I can to help others, whether it be in an operating room or in the morgue. But now, thanks to you, Organic Chemistry, I can't see myself there anymore. I don't think I'd be good enough to have an MD anymore. The only the place I can see myself now is curled up in the corner in the fetal position, rocking back and forth slowly until any memory of you is gone.

So yeah, rant done. Commence rapid-fire studying and praying that I will not be raped again.

Like I said, supposedly this is a better form of release than taking shots prior to the test...we'll see.

As always,

Lex