Viviene Dela Cruz
answered on 11 Feb 2021:
last edited 11 Feb 2021 11:10 am
Hi! Thanks for the question! 🙂 Conducting experiments (safely!) are what I do to make science more enjoyable. Especially with chemistry, you could do a bunch of cool experiments using ingredients/materials you can find at home (please ask an adult to help you out, it’s sometimes more fun to do experiments with others anyway :D). But I think the important thing is that you stay curious despite not enjoying the current topic in science you’re studying. I didn’t particularly like computing for element’s chemical properties when I took chemistry but now as a laser scientist, I could understand why the other scientists in my team chose silver over gold and other stuff like that. Even though I’m more on the physics side, the chemistry bit (which wasn’t my favourite at school) is helping me be a better scientist today 🙂
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TL;DR: do experiments if you can because practical experience will likely make you enjoy it more and understand that the “boring” bits of science will help you do much cooler stuff as a scientist in the future 😀 Hope this helps!
I really hated revising for chemistry – what got me through was watching the Crash Course Youtube videos. They’re really well explained and animated and only a few minutes long if you struggle to focus!
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Alice commented on :
I really hated revising for chemistry – what got me through was watching the Crash Course Youtube videos. They’re really well explained and animated and only a few minutes long if you struggle to focus!
Alice commented on :
Oops sorry just seen this wasn’t asked of me, hope it was useful anyway :’)
Viviene commented on :
I love Crash Course! MinutePhysics is a good one too, although it’s not exactly for Chemistry 🙂