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Chemistry, I've always loved science. Except for Physics there was too much darn math in that subject!

I find aspects of it interesting, but I am crap at the math/equation side of it

I like it as well. The one thing I never learned in school, but always wanted to learn, is how to develop comprehensive kinetic models for parallel competing reactions (accounting for both temperature and pressure variations). I know that a lot of literature sources seem to assume pseudo-first order reactions and use nonlinear regression to get rate constants, but I'm not entirely comfortable doing that myself without being shown how, particularly when they throw pressure in as a variable.

Biochemistry for me!

Chemistry was nice until I hit organic chemistry. Then everything started breaking all the rules I was taught and it started to make me cry. I mean, electrons were hopping around all over the place, OH bonds randomly got pulled away and created C+ ions, and resonance.

In a way, I kind of miss it. I'm actually a political science major now after organic chemistry and physics killed the science route for me.

Chemistry is elegant and beautiful. Physics is a dirty rag that smells like an out house. Strait math is sublime.

I hated O Chem when I was in it because I had a horrible professor, but when I went back over it by my self in preparation for the MCAT I could see the connections better and it was much more fun. Analytical was fun only for the high tech machines we got to use.

Chemistry was better than quite a few subjects for me, but I actually found it boring in some part. I got an A* for GCSE Chemistry without even trying. I blame how boring I found it on the fact that one of my elder sisters used to confuse me with all of her terminology - she loved it - and then when we actually came to it in school it was super easy.

Nah, Physics is the science for me, and Maths overrules Physics.

Chemistry fills a special place in my heart, and was a special interest for me in childhood.

I've always had interest in the stuff that fills and makes up our universe (astronomy, chemistry, biology etc.). It really took off for me when I got a chem set one christmas with all kinds of strange compounds and reactions that could be made... however, when the chems in the set were used it kinda faded again, maybe because I didn't think I could do more in chemistry.

In college, I was known mostly for my adept handling of chemicals, flasks and equipment. In a few cases with harder assignments, I was the only one to have made the intended reaction, especially those where one needs a steady hand or speed. The theory was pretty easy and straight-forward, I found the organic chemistry somewhat hard at first, but after getting the logic of the groups (OH etc.) it wasn't that hard for me.

Most of the experience, however, came from helping cook dinner since the age of 6 (the time my parents would let me ), many of the same skills are used whether in front of the stove or the flasks...

While chemist was an interesting career choice at the time, I was pretty tired of school back then, and I decided against getting into a university....