ambivert: fun at orion lecture
orion lecture on thursday was damn sad.
i signed up for the one on "chemical bonding". the teacher in charge of orion made it sound very hopeful when he talked to us on wednesday. he said, "this will expose you to the different perspectives to chemical bonding, and you get to see the different approaches to it."
how very convincing.
just one day later, when we stepped into lt5 for the talk, we were greeted with a slide with something strangely unfamiliar to us: the periodic table. like, WOW. to quote andrew, "so exciting! we are going to learn these stuff for the FOURTH time!" (once in sec 1, second time in ip1, third time in ip2)
so we took our seats in the damn-blardy-cold lt5 and held on to some desparate hopes of discovering an entirely new dimension of chemical bonding.
when the notes were handed out, hopes were dashed. 23 pages, nothing at all we havent learned. ionic bonding, covalent bonding, metallic bonding, bond length, structure of the ionic compound NaCl, how aqueous ions conduct electricity, *lists everything from sec 1 and ip1 chem notes*. i felt as if i was a p6 student from national primary school.
some really awesome moments:
"in the periodic table, the vertical columns are called groups, and the horizontal rows are called periods."
she spends 5 long minutes or so going through 1 slide on the 3 types of chemical bonding. images provided courtesy of some chem textbook company.
"now i want you to pair up with a partner and brainstorm about the different ionic compounds you can think of. AS MANY AS POSSIBLE! QUICK!" i bet she would have been impressed if i showed her the (NH4)2SO4
"now, im going to show you a video. be VERY attentive, because im going to show you how the compound sodium chloride is formed from its elements, sodium and chlorine."
"did you enjoy the video (on ionic bonding)? *people forced themselves to say yes.* ive got 4 more to show you!"
"am i going through too quickly? please slow me down if you think i'm too fast." yes, sure. you can just end the lecture like, now.
it finally ended when we left for the other lecture on the history, applications and mechanisms of LASER. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. WAAAAAAAY COOLER. MANN.
the only sad thing was that when we entered the lecture venue we found 3 people and a lecturer. no kidding.
i signed up for the one on "chemical bonding". the teacher in charge of orion made it sound very hopeful when he talked to us on wednesday. he said, "this will expose you to the different perspectives to chemical bonding, and you get to see the different approaches to it."
how very convincing.
just one day later, when we stepped into lt5 for the talk, we were greeted with a slide with something strangely unfamiliar to us: the periodic table. like, WOW. to quote andrew, "so exciting! we are going to learn these stuff for the FOURTH time!" (once in sec 1, second time in ip1, third time in ip2)
so we took our seats in the damn-blardy-cold lt5 and held on to some desparate hopes of discovering an entirely new dimension of chemical bonding.
when the notes were handed out, hopes were dashed. 23 pages, nothing at all we havent learned. ionic bonding, covalent bonding, metallic bonding, bond length, structure of the ionic compound NaCl, how aqueous ions conduct electricity, *lists everything from sec 1 and ip1 chem notes*. i felt as if i was a p6 student from national primary school.
some really awesome moments:
"in the periodic table, the vertical columns are called groups, and the horizontal rows are called periods."
she spends 5 long minutes or so going through 1 slide on the 3 types of chemical bonding. images provided courtesy of some chem textbook company.
"now i want you to pair up with a partner and brainstorm about the different ionic compounds you can think of. AS MANY AS POSSIBLE! QUICK!" i bet she would have been impressed if i showed her the (NH4)2SO4
"now, im going to show you a video. be VERY attentive, because im going to show you how the compound sodium chloride is formed from its elements, sodium and chlorine."
"did you enjoy the video (on ionic bonding)? *people forced themselves to say yes.* ive got 4 more to show you!"
"am i going through too quickly? please slow me down if you think i'm too fast." yes, sure. you can just end the lecture like, now.
it finally ended when we left for the other lecture on the history, applications and mechanisms of LASER. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. WAAAAAAAY COOLER. MANN.
the only sad thing was that when we entered the lecture venue we found 3 people and a lecturer. no kidding.
posted by ambivert at
9:54 PM
7 Comments:
that's pathetically funny.
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Anonymous, at 4:13 PM
that's pathetically funny.
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Anonymous, at 4:13 PM
doh. who's anonymous.
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Anonymous, at 7:51 PM
yep, that talk was sad.
-kenneth
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Anonymous, at 8:18 AM
arts stream PWNz j00.
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Anonymous, at 11:43 AM
sad.
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M, at 7:41 PM
YESS. I TOTALLY AGREE.IT'S THE BESTEST LECTURE IN THE WORLD. I LOOOOOVE CHEMICAL BONDING. to think we have to listen to that same damned lecture for the FIFTH time now. argh.
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angesil, at 11:15 PM
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