Ugh. I'm sooo stuck on whether or not I should continue Chemistry next year. As people may have probably seen through some of my previous posts, I actually do not like chemistry one bit.
The one golden piece of advice in VCE is this,
Do what you like.If you dont want to be there (and you know it too) everything will be so much more of a drag. It'll feel like a tedious marathon of work from the beginning to the end. Everything will be so much harder. If you look at a lot of peoples scores and ask them their favourite subject, i don't think you'll be shocked to find their highest scores are probably the things they liked the most.
I did chemistry, didn't really want to. It dragged on and on and on. Compared to uni chem, its
insanely easy. It wasn't in my top 4 though, i just really didn't enjoy it in many of the parts.
If there's a way you can get around it,
you should take that way.- It's a prereq for a lot of science courses at uni (yeah I know that physics and bio are too, but I'm not doing them), some of which I'm thinking of doing (BSc, Pharmacy)
Really? I've seen very few courses that ask for chem specifically. Most ask for generic science subjects (bio, physics, math, pysc, etc) very few ask for chemistry by name though.
If you want to do pharmacy, the chemistry wont go away, it'll likely get harder. I know people say you should follow your dreams and all that but if you hate chemistry, that dream could rapidly turn into a nightmare. I did uni chem (too long of a story) and it was waaay worse than VCE chem, i really struggled mainly cause i had no interest, didn't want to be there, so i barely touched the work, it was painful.
Most people who get this advice will ignore it (hey i did) but its worth really, really thinking about.
- Some of the courses I want to do don't require it (Nursing/Midwifery at Deakin, Psychology with honours at Monash), and if I end up in one of those courses because I change my mind about doing BSc or Pharmacy, then I'll regret doing chem in the first place as I won't even need it for Uni
This happened to me with methods, i wound up at a place where i didn't even need it!
My methods experience (the rest of my vce was absolutely awesome) was the worst, worst, worst bit of VCE. I hated going to class. The teacher was crappy. He didn't like me personally. Even got tutors to help out but again, i was a fairly crappy student, no matter the tutor, because, i simply not only wasn't interested or didn't want to be there but i actually
hated and
dreaded it.
Then i wound up at a place where i didn't even need it after all the work which kinda sucked.
I need a reason for myself to do it, otherwise I'm changing subjects to either Legal or History: Revs (which I'd actually do out of interest and thus actually enjoy)
I'd suggest
you do this.
Unless the course is the course of your dreams (also note the example of something like pharmacy where the chem just wont disappear, i'd still stay away from that), you shouldn't do chemistry if you hate it.
If it is the course of your dreams or everything else is much worse (keep in mind rankings mean squat outside business/law/maybe eng) then you'll unfortunately have to slog through chem, i think this would be for the best in this situation.
If it's a course like pharmacy where the chem just wont go away and it
will get harder, i'd seriously seriously reconsider that move.
but if I do BSc I'll be doing it to do something that most probably requires some kind of background knowledge in chemistry, and so I'd be better off doing it.
Like what? You might be surprised here..
And Monash (Clayton campus) is so far away!
Me and a few other people here live in the west and it takes about ~2 hours, its manageable, if there is something closer AND better for you though (monash has a better pharmacology department and a better philosophy of religion department than UoM, so, worth the bother in my case) then win win, if not reconsider. Three years of slightly longer travel at a better place is worth it.
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Chemistry is a prerequisite for almost all courses
That simply isn't true man
There are still some science courses you can get into without science (eg. BSci at Monash), so you won't be completely boxed out if you choose not to do chemistry.
You still need a science (or math). You'd have rocks in your head if you go into it and have not done any science units previously. Almost everyone else has. It will make it so much harder.
Plus, short of a sudden and deep change of heart, if you are interested in science, you will have done it in VCE anyway.
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