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Originally Posted by OvertaxedOnLI
I will forever remember Organic Chem as the course that killed my 4.0 GPA. I have definitely blocked out the professor's name but I am sure it wasn't Hechtel... it was a youngish guy.
I do recall my history prof's names though: Dr. Stuart Semel and Dr. Karl Bottigheimer were both in British History. I'm sitting here trying to remember the name of the German or Swiss professor who taught the courses in the history of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Fairly tall, very slim, probably in his 60s at the time, and with pure white hair.
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When I took organic at SUNY SB, you would have needed a pair of binoculars to
see the professor. There were more than 500 people in the class. I got a B without much effort. The little plus signs and arrows and neat little percent yields pale in comparative difficulty to real organic synthesis. There, it's 'react A with B, and get mostly C (hopefully, what you wanted) some D (junk you toss) and a slumgullion of God knows what, that you have to scrape out of the flask.'
P-chem...now
that was tough. Getting a B in that course was one of my greatest academic achievements.