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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: ONE OZ SLUG]
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My dad has the patent for the contraceptive sponge. That was a different era. The 50s-70s chemists were in high demand. Those days are over.


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: koods] * 1
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Most people that think they want a degree in chemistry actually want a degree in chemical engineering.

I worked at a Subway a few years ago an the assistant manager had a degree in chemistry.


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: koods]
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Depends if you mean a degree in chemistry or a job in chemistry, which could be hundreds of various things anyway.

For somebody in a dead end career path you sure are more likely to be the one to cure cancer (or whatever else).

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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: The Moose]
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I just started organic chemistry a few weeks ago and you really need to have an understanding of general chemistry before hand or you will be lost.  www.khanacademy.com has a decent section dedicated to chemistry.  If you have the discipline to read the entire textbook several times relearn precalculus/algebra, and do all the problems you can learn the same thing at home.  Personally I never did.

Also chemistry isn't a dead end career path, it's just probably not going to bring in very much money unless you major in chemical engineering.  People are outsourcing a lot of those jobs unfortunately.


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: fapjack]
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I met with a very old chemical engineer who is a professor at Vanderbilt a few weeks ago and he said the highest paying in demand job for chemical engineers is the petroleum and feul companies.

I didn't think about khan academy. Maybe I'll start on it this week. Algebra isn't something I need to relearn I'm taking college algebra and trig rn. As for precal that I have never taken.


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: LoveNaborFuckHater]
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That's definitely something I'm going to consider.  There's tons of chemical engineering jobs in TX, Houston and Beaumont in particular from what I hear.  I'd like to try maybe working for a pharmaceutical company but if it doesn't pay the bills, I'm going to Houston :shrug:

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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: koods]
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koods said:
ONE OZ SLUG said:
There's lots of different types of jobs you can pursue with a degree in chemistry.  Get a masters at the very minimum if you want the really good ones.


Lol. Chemistry is a dead end career path.


Doesn't that depend what you apply it to?

That's like if I said IT was a dead end career path, that no one gives a shit if you swapped hard drives at Best Buy. But I know some people who have been in IT twenty years and are making 75k a year.

There are several different courses to study chemistry under aren't there? Organic chemistry. Inorganic chemistry. Analytical chemistry. Physical chemistry etc.

None of them lead anywhere? I myself wouldn't get a degree in that field and try to pursue it simply because I don't have a natural affinity for it. Meaning, I don't see myself as someone that would be good enough at it to pursue it.

Did you study it yourself and apply yourself also?


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: koods]
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koods said:
My dad has the patent for the contraceptive sponge. That was a different era. The 50s-70s chemists were in high demand. Those days are over.


You mean he still holds the patent? Or he got screwed on the patent? How does one patent the contraceptive sponge anyway? Obviously the sponge itself cannot be patented otherwise every time someone made a sponge they'd get the shit sued out of them.

You are saying he patented the spermacidal chemical that is put on the sponge? Shouldn't he be a multi millionaire 30 times over then just owning a small percentage of that patent even?


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: imachavel]
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He invented the process for making the actual foam. The patent is in his name but assigned to the company he worked for. That's what happens when you are an employee.

The brand name of the foam he invented is Hypol (hydrophilic polyurethane)

Ugh. Looking into it, his patent is probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more - to the company he worked for and now to Dow who currently owns it.

http://www.dow.com/pusystems/product/hypol.htm

The stuff is pretty cool. It's a syrupy liquid that you mix with water and it turns into a foam and sets in about 30 minutes.

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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: koods]
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Did your dad get a kick out of the Seinfeld episode where they discontinued the contraceptive sponge?


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: fapjack]
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I did the first set of lessons of chemistry on khan academy last night and I liked it a lot. For the first time I finally understand protons, neutrons, atomic weight/mass and most of all mole.


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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: LoveNaborFuckHater]
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It makes a difference when you actually want to learn the material.

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Re: Organic Chemistry bitchez [Re: LoveNaborFuckHater]
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LoveNaborFuckHater said:
I did the first set of lessons of chemistry on khan academy last night and I liked it a lot. For the first time I finally understand protons, neutrons, atomic weight/mass and most of all mole.


Get a textbook off of kickasstorrents and do all the odd problems after each chapter.  Chemistry The Central Science is a pretty good gen chem book.  You won't absorb shit if you don't do all the problems, trust me.  Do them until they make sense, then download some quizs on each chapter.  You can find them online, colleges put old tests up.  Learn to do the math problems from the bottom up, relearn algebra, trig, do precalc on khan academy.  There math section of the site is a lot better than their chemistry section.  It should take you a few months to get through it, if it takes less time you are doing it wrong.  I did chemistry 2 over the summer and it was 6 weeks of non-stop studying for only half the course for an example of how long it should take when you are reading the content everyday.  Math is essential to chemistry, if you aren't comfortable with algebra, logarithms you will run in to issues.  It's really interesting, but you need to get past a lot of not so interesting stuff to have a basic understanding of it.  Just stick with it!


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