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Self StudyBasics of Education Chemistry is not my favorite subject. I think it seems funny to have a minor in chemistry when I don't even like chemistry, but it was sort of a package deal when I decided my biological science major. It not that I despise or hate chemistry, it's just that I have a ingrained fear of it. Chemistry is the only class that I've failed. I've never failed any class up until I failed my inorganic class my sophomore year. That class was unbearable and I really believe that it was partially the instructor's fault. She taught us one thing and we where tested over something else, she never showed up to her office hours, and when we had scheduled review sessions, she told the class that she would not go over the old material. She believe that she had already taught it once and that if we had questions we should look back in our notes and read our book. Besides she was foreign and had quite a thick Eastern European accent and she could be hard to understand. It seemed the more I studied th e worse I did on tests and quizzes so by the end of the semester I gave up because it was hopeless. I would of had to get over %100 on my final to even come close to passing. At the end of the semester I found out that almost half of the class failed. I think that says something when there is that many students failing a class. It has been three semesters since I took that class. I took one semester off from chemistry, and then retook that inorganic class this previous semester. Now I am back on tract and on my next phase of chemistry, "The Deep Fried World of Organic Chemistry". The first day of class was a real eye opener. "Organic Chemistry 251 is the biggest class I have ever been in! I'm guessing that there is about 400 people in this class. It would make sense that there would be this many people since this is the only one lecture time of 251 this semester. I had a hard time finding a seat. The seating capacity for this lecture hall is 438 people, and I think it almost at that capacity.