Organic chemistry

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I just finished my organic chem lab this very Friday. We made ASA and extracted caffeine from tea and did some experiments with organic solvents. I really had a great time and it was a lot easier than our non-organic lab. But I know really little about organic chemistry, I sure hope that during the course of my studies I'll gain more knowledge.

You did that too?
It's really a pain to get the organic phase and put more solvent in it and do the same thing over and over again...

But unless you try to take a look at the reactions that occur within the organic and inorganic phases and how these get apart from eachother and all...Labs contribute not much to your understanding of organic chemistry.
You just need to pick a compound, and tell yourself, I want to synthetize this compound from this one(within reasonable limits, of course).
And you just look at the options that you have, and try to do so.
This is how you learn organic chemistry.
But labs, yeah, they are helpful, too.