I'm still holding out for explosions. Hopefully this pie chart will change by the end of the semester.
I came into this class (seventh hour, actually) expecting a lot of lab write ups and experimental procedures. It's probably best that most of our time was spent learning about the ever changing model of the atom and Bohr's obsession with hydrogen seeing as this is the time of year that has seniors (well, seniors like me and my friends) scrambling to finish college applications. The labs we did for mixtures and light and such were fun and rather easy.
It was actually good to have all of the atom and light wave exposition. Well, not so much atoms because I've had atomic structure down since middle school, but I'd completely forgotten that light is supposed to be made of photons and that electrons travel as a particle and a wave, which is pretty freaking awesome.
I still don't like the way elements are supposed to be written with their orbitals. It's hard to keep straight in my head when you're supposed to jump back to s orbitals from d or p or whatever. Hopefully I won't be needing this information later. I can recite how many electrons go in which orbital (s=2, p=6, d=10, f=14) but I'll be reluctant to write out any atom except hydrogen (H 1s1)!
I'm pretty sure we're out of atomic structure now that we've taken a test on it though so I should be good.
I'm gonna go back to watching Code Lyoko now.
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