CHEMISTRY AND ME!

   Chemistry first walked in into my life when I was sixteen years old. I was a little freaked out when I went to a book store to buy my very first Chemistry reference book. The only thing that was running in my mind was “how many problems does a sixteen years old teenager suppose to solve?” The book was loaded with many problems to be solved.

     Then I tried to convince myself and attended my very first chemistry lesson. That was the first time my teacher introduced us to the periodic table. I was stunned to see all the alphabets arranged

   My most favourite theory that was thought was The Arrhenius Theory. In which Arrhenius acid is a substance that produces H+ in water and Arrhenius base is a substance that produces OH- in water. My teacher loves teaching us by illustrating many diagrams to explain the theory that were involved in Chemistry.

 

      Besides the entire lesson I’ve learnt in Chemistry there are also a joke that I will never be able to forget. It happened last 2009 on my organic chemistry lab. The experiment that we suppose perform involves the usage of alcohol. The alcohol that was given to us was ethanol. All of us started our experiment. A friend of mine (name was not allowed to reveal) was walking all around the lab to get the ethanol. She finally stood up near to my bench and asked me “ tisha, where is the alcohol?” while holding a bottle of ethanol. I answered “your holding it!” she kept on asking us where the alcohol while holding a bottle of ethanol is. I, Shangari and Janiss had a good laugh when we watched her doing that.

 

  

There was another incident where I can relate it to chemistry.  It was another fine lab class going on in the laboratory. We have almost finished our experiments. My friend Janiss and Phriyashini was cleaning all the apparatus. They were pouring all the chemicals in the basin and all of a sudden it exploded. It was the Group 1 elements which is very reactive. They were very panic and did not take any step to put off the fire and start shouting out my name. Phriya quickly opened the tap to flow and put off the fire.         

     Pharmaceutical chemistry 1 was quite hard for me. All the chemical properties, physical properties, identification test and assays drove me crazy. Now, I wonder what pharmaceutical chemistry 2 has for all of us. No matter what chemistry i'm pretty sure we will fall in love with each other very soon!!