I've thought about this question a lot, especially in relation to my classes at school. I feel that chemistry will be useful in many aspects of my life after I leave high school. There are many careers that require knowledge of at least some chemistry. Many jobs in the medical and engineering fields require the use of chemistry on a daily basis. One day, I hope to work in one of these fields and many of the skills i learn this year will be the basis of what i will do.
I think that chemistry is a much more intersting class than some classes, like math. Although chemistry may involve a lot of math, it involes tangibile items. Chemistry is not just meaningless calculations over and over again (even though it may seem like it at time). I guess that is what motivates me to learn chemistry. In 5 years i might not remember how many valence electrons silicon has, but hopefully I can come back to some of the concepts I learned, and use those skills and apply it to more advanced situations. I guess that sums up why I am motivated to take Chemistry 173 this year, I know that I will be thankful in the future for the skills I learned today.
btw mr. grdinic the movie is Office Space not The Office
Where is my Motivation?
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politics and science
With everything going on in the country today, it seems that not enough attention is being devoted to science. Which isn't a bad thing considering our economy is in shambles, we just impeached our governor, and to top it all off, the Taliban is having a resurgence. The last thing on peoples' mind is porbably science. Scientific studies often take years of research and scientific developments are not always "breaking news". But nonetheless, science is a part of our daily lives. Many of the breakthoughs in science that we take for granted, were because of the work of talented scientists. And those scientists could not have done their research without the neccessary financial resources. Durring the past 8 years or so, research grants from the government has plummented, going to what Mr. Bush saw as more valuable, like defense spending for the greatly successful wars we have been involved in. Although our economic situation is rough now, hopefully in the future more funding and attention will be given to the scientific fields.
Quantum Mechanics
The other day in class we learned about quantum mechanics. It is a bizarre field, and defies common knowledge. It almost seems that what goes on in the quantum world is impossible. It is one of those sciences that you can't clearly see what is happening, you just need to accept that it is true. We must understand that the world of atoms is much different than the world we live in. Quantum mechanics is extremely difficult to understand because we only have an understanding of what we encounter in our daily lives.
I think the best way that helped me understand what goes on in the quantum world was the quantum bar scene from the video. It gave an example of when you would order an orange drink, you could get the orange drink, but a blue one, a red one and many different other colors all at the same time. This helps to explain the double slit experiment where the atom could go into almost any direction and every one of those direction would be possible.
Below, I posted a somewhat related video to blow your mind.
I think the best way that helped me understand what goes on in the quantum world was the quantum bar scene from the video. It gave an example of when you would order an orange drink, you could get the orange drink, but a blue one, a red one and many different other colors all at the same time. This helps to explain the double slit experiment where the atom could go into almost any direction and every one of those direction would be possible.
Below, I posted a somewhat related video to blow your mind.
Video shows what the future holds for us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8
This video gave made me the impression of how America is really starting to lose some of the glory it has enjoyed in the past 50 years or so. American thrived during the 50's especially because the mainland U.S. was not attacked durring WWII. While many of the European countries were focusing on rebuilding their countries, America was able to be the dominant player on the global market. Now, Europe and the rest of the world is starting to grow and America does not have the supremacy that it used to have (thank you George Bush).
The section dealing with technology seemed to be much less depressing to me. We know technology is advancing faster and faster, and tools like the Internet and other inventions have made that possible. But it is too hard to predict know all the amazing technologies that would be coming in the future. 20 years ago, no one predicted that today you would be able to store thousands of songs and hundreds of videos inside your pocket. It will be amazing to see how future technologies will help to shape our society
This video gave made me the impression of how America is really starting to lose some of the glory it has enjoyed in the past 50 years or so. American thrived during the 50's especially because the mainland U.S. was not attacked durring WWII. While many of the European countries were focusing on rebuilding their countries, America was able to be the dominant player on the global market. Now, Europe and the rest of the world is starting to grow and America does not have the supremacy that it used to have (thank you George Bush).
The section dealing with technology seemed to be much less depressing to me. We know technology is advancing faster and faster, and tools like the Internet and other inventions have made that possible. But it is too hard to predict know all the amazing technologies that would be coming in the future. 20 years ago, no one predicted that today you would be able to store thousands of songs and hundreds of videos inside your pocket. It will be amazing to see how future technologies will help to shape our society
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