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The Big Scary First Day of P-Chem Speech
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It's time for you to go pro.
Show you learned and the grade takes care of itself.
Take this seriously.
Physical chemistry is the "heart-breaker" course in the chemistry major. This is true for a reason.
College is ending.
In the next eight to twenty months, you should be a degreed chemist or chemical engineer. Get ready for that starting now.
Demonstrate understanding.
No, seriously.
There are no trick questions. Even if there were, comprehensive knowledge is the best defense.
Thank Google for making memorization declassé. You'll need to know how to separate the good stuff from the junk.
Accept responsibility.
Your outcomes in this class will be a direct result of your actions - or lack thereof. When you make better decisions, you make better grades.
I don't curve.
Curving grades is bad for you. It creates needless competition, suspicion and acrimony.
It's also bad for Black America.
Welcome
to Physical Chemistry 1
Don't be this guy.
Contact info
Dr. John A.W. Harkless
Chem 171, Sec. 1
Office location: CHB, B13
jharkless@howard.edu
202-806-6899
Lectures:
MW 11:10am - 12:30pm
Office Hours:
MW 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Twitter @HUGenChem
and by appointment
This isn't like your other classes.
You will meet my standards.
You will use complete sentences and reason.
That's how professionals do it. That's how I do it, and it's worked out pretty well so far.
I'm always bringing up old stuff.
There is no backdoor.
It's not OK to stew in it.
It's OK not to know.
I expect you to recall and apply material from your prior classes. My training preceded Google and Wikipedia. Remembering stuff is good.
There are no re-takes. There is no "easy summer version."
There is just me and the ample regular credit I assign throughout the semester.
I can only answer questions that I hear. One guarantee: unasked questions never get an answer.
That's pretty much the point of taking a class. Ask questions. I expect them to be good.
The pre-reqs are there for a reason.
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You can't do this without calculus. It's implausible without physics. You shouldn't try without chemistry.