(August 30, 2013 at 12:27 pm)festive1 Wrote: Sorry, PBB, I'm at a community college doing prerequisite courses.
(August 30, 2013 at 11:48 am)Psykhronic Wrote: I always found chem labs to be completely different than the lectures, and the TA for the lab went over everything we needed before the beginning of each lab. Honestly, knowing unit conversions is probably your best bet before going in there but you'll learn it there anyway. It was a lot like cooking with chemicals in those labs. And a couple calculations.
Good to know the lab is supposed to be different than what's being gone over in lecture.
Our TA said, "I'm here for supervision and emergency problems only, not to explain what you are supposed to be doing." Evidently our lecturer/professor is supposed to do that... but... Or maybe no one is supposed to explain what we're doing in lab, which doesn't make sense...
I'm going to have to speak with the prof if this does prove to be an issue.
But I'll read through the labs before class, figure out any formulas I need beforehand, and figure out what data I need to collect.
Thanks and if anyone has any other suggestions, please post them!
Hm, if your TA made it clear they're not going to help much, most of what I said still applies, XD. Especially if your lab has a strict time limit.
