I want to buy a book on mechanisms of reactions in organic chemistry but I am filled with anxiety that it'll be worthless regardless of its high quality content. I am not even sure if I am gonna make it through school let alone enjoy chemistry as a habit. I just read about the structural theory in an O Chem book that is for from high school to MSc but the stuff is enormously complicated for me. I understand pure O Chem just fine. But the understanding of inorganic chemistry (including spatial orientations of atomic orbitals, molecular orbits and all that fancy stuff) is essential. But then again I cannot be complaining because chemical thermodynamics is relevant to chemical kinetics.


Not sure what to do.

[Crook32]

I took the Materials Science route so I could avoid organic and inorganic chemistry. I still had to do physical chemistry and thermodynamics but they were doable. Materials science is a nice mixture of a lot of different disciplines.

I had taken the materials science route if I could deal with mathematics, but unfortunately it is one of my weakest subjects. I know mathematics is the language of science, I never wanted to do a career in pure sciences, but since I am not clear cut to be a doctor or a medical scientist, I'll have to stick with chemistry. I am beginning to hate biology but since O Chem is related with drugs, I still have interest, while in biology there's a lot of non-medical stuff I hate.