In my senior year of high school, I must have sat at my dining room table for days trying to figure out my organic chemistry homework. In class, what the teacher said all made sense, but when I tried to apply my notes to homework problems, I frequently found myself lost in a sea of elements. To make matters worse, my parents could not help. The three of us would read definitions over and over, search the index, consult the encyclopedia, and finally, give up. The whole semester I was at school early almost every day asking questions and feeling more and more frustrated.
That experience completely turned me off to chemistry, and from then on I avoided not only chemistry but often any challenging material. I hated feeling helpless and for lack of a better word, stupid. Maybe, if there had been more resources available I would have become an award winning chemist…probably not, but it may have saved my family a lot of stressful evenings trying to understand the differences between chirality and stereoisomers.
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