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Chemistry in school was about memorising arbitrary things without any meaning or explanation why. Just like every other subject to be honest...
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Chemistry was honestly like most things when it came to learning in an educational/classroom setting for me. It's like Math and all subjects, I am passionate for learning and gaining an appreciation for the subject at hand, but I utterly HATE doing it in school because all it meant was to just get a great grade.
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I know I'm a bit late, but here's my experience. I'm currently a high school student enrolled in AP chemistry. I have always been interested in chemistry ever since I was 6 years old. Both my parents are engineers so it kind of makes sense that I would take the sciences route. last year, i took regular chemistry instead of honors chemistry (because I wasn't in a high enough math yet) and i did really well and ended the year with an A. This year has been quite a shift. My friend and I were in the same chem class and we were both (some of) the smartest in the class. when we started our journey through AP chem, everything changed. we used to be so passionate about the subject and we used to love learning new things. now, being surrounded by classmates who took honors chem instead of regular, we have lost all excitement and love for the subject. the people around us put us down and make us feel inferior because we aren't getting the same grades as them, and we aren't as smart as them. there are only about 17 people in my class and a solid handful act this way. it almost made me rethink my entire decision to pursue chemistry as a career. the honors chem students learned a lot of what we are learning now, last year. so this entire year is a review for them, while it is all new to my friend and i. i also don't think my teacher likes me very much so that's great (i sent her your video of making gloves into hot sauce and she saw it but didn't respond). i honestly think her way of teaching is great but it's just the way people act sometimes that makes me stray away from the subject. watching your videos and others like it reminds me of how much i really love chem and that i just have to push through to the end. i keep having to tell myself that it will get better. this is not the end of my chemistry era. thank you for coming to my ted talk. even if no one sees this i'm glad i finally got this all off my chest
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It's easy to like chemistry when the dude teaching it to u is adorable and a good speaker
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Honestly the stress of having to keep my grade in the class up got in the way of me having much fun learning it. The happiest I ever was in that class was in the beginning when we werent being graded and we could just focus on whats being taught
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When I was younger I used to love chemistry so much, I found it incredibly interesting. Years later when I started high school I suddenly started to despise it. This was because my teacher would always intensely criticize me (or really, harass and abuse me) for making a mistake or even just asking a question. Ever since then I have always had a fear of science as a whole. I could never even look at a scientific paper without shaking and going into a full on panic attack. I’ve dealt with all this for years now, but ever since I found your channel I have finally started to move past those horrible experiences. To be completely honest, I think it’s because you seem like a super nice and knowledgeable human being that makes chemistry seem fun again. Your videos don’t make me feel like the world will explode if mistakes happen. I am so incredibly thankful to you for helping me get through my PTSD (which is something many doctors and therapists have tried to do and have failed). Without your videos I don’t know what would’ve happened to me, so I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making my life better for me than it ever has been in so long. :)
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I hated it because I was never allowed to explore things on my own and had to stay focused on one specific thing, and we all know what it's like to tell the kid with ADHD to focus, it just doesn't work. It made me think it was just linear and nothing special. Your wacky experiments made me realize just how in depth and involved chemistry can really be, and opened my eyes to the possibilities of what can be done
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I know this is two years old but im still gonna put my experience out there, my high school chem class was a big dissapointment, i didnt understand a majority of the subject matter because the teacher I had was honestly just not good. She prioritzed student drama over lessons and would move any students who spoke to eachother (including me, when I would ask the person next to me for clarification on something, the only bastion of hope I had for passing the class) to the back of the room so by the end of the year I was surrounded by all the kids who didnt want to be there, unable to learn a subject I had been excited for since childhood, so for a long time I associated chemistry as a whole with my personal experience.
Anyways, your videos have absolutely 180'd my view on chem, almost igniting a passion for it, since I discovered you about a year and a half ago I think ive watched just about all the content youve put out and the way you put your videos together is always relatively easy to understand and very well edited.
I can safely say yes, I have hated chem and nigel helped me find a love for it I didnt think I would.
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I think the problem with chemistry education is the same as all stem education, which is students just follow a curriculum where they get told what to do every step of the way.
Your videos present an intellectual curiosity naturally leading to the desire to experiment and find answers. I think that's something we can all relate to. How many times have students been given the opportunity to choose what they want to do an experiment on? Virtually never, at least until they become RAs or start working on a thesis. There is no passion with anything students do, and every experiment is intended to teach something related to the lecture part of the curriculum. There's no "let's wonder what would happen if we did this and find out" it's all "follow the directions precisely and it's -10 if you don't get the expected result"
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I started hating chemistry from the time I started preparing for the JEE (an Indian exam for engineering) about a year ago. I thought it was all about memorising chemical reactions, equations and exceptions. This was all when I had my old teacher, now they replaced the teacher and the new one is so good, she made me start to really like the subject!
I realised the real reason I didn't like it was the way it was thought to me - just memorise without understanding. My new teacher made us understood everything in a fun way and showed us that logic is more important in chemistry than memorisation.
Now I really have an appreciation of Chemistry and plan to not neglect it in the future.
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I had a poor experience with Chem in high school. We'd make it back to our labs and half of the class would be scratching their heads trying to figure out what to do. My second year was also during covid so I didn't grasp a lot of what was happening. I love your videos because it's removing all the stress of trying to pass a class, and just exploring genuine curiosity. The structure is so organized too. Even if I don't understand exactly what you're doing, I can still easily follow along and that's awesome.
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On the more geeky perspective, I used to be so excited for chemistry when I was younger. I always loved the idea of alchemists and wizards brewing these different concoctions and making something amazing with them. But once I finally got to high school and learn chemistry, it never really clicked that it was a science and had a lot of math involved in it. All the stuff we learned was more on paper than actual flashy experiments that amaze people, which, you know, it's fair and safe and practical. But it felt disappointing. Even the smartest kid in our class admitted he gave up on trying to understand how it works. But everytime I watch you experiment and use all these tools and mix things into bottles and see a reaction, I always get that same sense of wonder again.
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I just didn't like the routine of class and the memorization of things. On top of that it felt rushed so I couldn't ask questions about things I didn't get/ things I wanted to learn more about.
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For me personally, I've never hated chemistry. I've always found it extremely interesting and would love to do it, even as some sort of a career. The issue for me is that chemistry to that degree requires much more time, effort, and commitment than I really have time for. It will always be one of those things I wish I had more time and money to put into. Your channels are very enjoyable to me because you don't just explain what you're doing, but also explain why things are happening or the theory behind those things
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You are my favorite chemist on the Internet, the way you explained everything in such an understandable fashion as well as how awesome you make everything look is the reason I love chemistry now, love you and your amazing content man
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My experience in chemistry was bad teaching and bad curriculum. I struggled in math, and as a result, also struggled in Stoichiometry which put a damper on my willingness to explore the subject. Refining gold is mostly what sparked my interest. I found your channel close to the beginning while watching nurd rage.
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In India we rarely to do practical chemistry and mostly do theoritical stuff.
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you are the reason i want to be a chemist! you make everything seem so fun and explain everything so a high school student can understand. in school when i ask my teacher to explain why does something we learn happens he is like "because it is that way". i feel like school doesn't encourage our curiosity and practical thinking. we just learn to accept things and never question them. and that's why i love your channels so much. you show all the failures but never give up until you reach your target. i hope that someday I'll end up having the same passion about my work as you do!
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I personally really liked physics but never were really into chemistry and I guess it had a lot to do with the way it was thought. Regardless of the application of the concept we were learning, the teacher was missing the drive you have, basically seeing you enjoying it so much made us able to enjoy it for ourselves, and catch up quite a lot on the gaps left by the lack of drive of previous teachers. I guess also the way you cope with failures makes it so much more human of an approach. Thank you for this!
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@meatatarian212
5 years ago
I never really liked it because all that we ever did in school was the math side of chemistry. It was just two years of balancing equations
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