Inorganic Chemistry

I am currently taking the second quarter of Inorganic Chemistry. This is where things are getting difficult. The first quarter was more like an review of things I learned in General Chemistry, with perhaps additional details that I hadn’t known before, but all that the context of learning Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry helped to form the foundation for them. I see why it is a capstone course.

I have often wondered whether to call myself a chemist or a biochemist. Lately, I can’t say I am fully either. I am probably more of a biochemist than a chemist, and yet I am taking classes that are more chemical than biochemical. And I like those classes more. I thought I wouldn’t like Inorganic Chemistry when I saw it in my first year, but now I regret not taking it earlier. It would have been much more interesting than re-taking biochemistry.

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