T-minus 6 days until my first midsem, haven't touched most lectures, will spend 1 day on each chem unit watching them.
Med chem midsem may actually go very well since 80% of the examinable stuff was covered in BMS2021 which was one of my favourite units in biomed.
Inorganic, a mix of feeling elated since UV-Vis and magnetism are pretty nice and easy (except maybe the Gouy balance formula that apparently won't be given), but NMR has the potential to become pretty ugly especially now in 3rd year H-NMR can see other NMR active molecules in its splitting. Dave did say since last year too many people were complaining about essentially sitting a 2 hour exam in an 1 hour midsem, this year they'll make it super easy.
Physical, dread. Just dread. I'd think it's just a slightly harder version of essentially U3 VCE chem but I was dead wrong with colloids. Some concepts are coming together such as surfactants, surface tension, Laplace pressure/Kelvin equation (basically modelling droplet/bubble growth and shrinkage), contact angle and adsorption isotherms, but not others such as formal explanation of dispersion forces, emulsions and stabilisation of colloidal materials which remain in Chinese (not the best analogy since it's my native language, but the point is they're virtually incomprehensible). I'm looking at the formula sheet and it looks like it will scrape me that pass. Also not keen on the thermodynamics topic, since apparently most formulas won't be given on the formula sheet, but that's for the final exam. Looking ahead, the P chem course ends with solid, liquid and gas theory. It's almost a poetic bookends in that the hardest unit of the chem major at Monash finishes with the chemistry that started it all. I used to complain that year 7-10 chem = solids, liquids and gases and in year 11 you get bombarded with moles, organic, analytical, pH, redox etc. Now it all goes back to the very beginning.
At this point, still looking to get low-mid 90s in MTH1020. I just want to pass P chem now with the insanity of the content in it. Inorganic, still looking for a mid-high 80s HD (labs are very draining, the writeup is even more so) and for med chem, still wanting that mid 90s for a WAM farmer's pride.
Enough rambling from me, time to grind more lectures.
