One friend is telling me, “Don’t worry you’ll be totally okay!” while also saying “Oh my gosh one girl totally messed up halfway through the lab.”
This is probably the scariest first experience ever. …And it hasn’t even happened yet!!
There’s like that giant air-bubble of anxiety in my tummy area right now. It’s making want to run around. Actually… run anywhere but the direction of my lab.
I have to remember so many things. Tie hair back. Close-toe shoes. Long pants. Goggles. Lab coat. Lab Manual. Design form. Calculator.
I got this.
No.
Yes.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Well. I will definitely blog about it when it’s over.
If your friends are all chill about the lab while you’re spazzing out, don’t even worry. …Because I’m spazzing out too.
AHHHHHH.
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ERMAGERD THE LAB.
You don’t do things in the order specified in the textbook xD but it actually makes sense, the way the TAs make you do it.
THE QUIZ IS actually not too bad. You get ten minutes to do everything, but it’s not so bad if you did the prelab and reading 🙂 YOU CAN DO IT YES YOU CAN I BELIEVE IN YOU
IT’S IN A DIFFERENT ORDER?! NOOOOOOO. And I think I can I think I can. I got this. MAYBE. Maybe. I don’t know. Who knows. What is chemistry lab anyways? …What is life? AHHH.
Oh dear 😛 My friend is a second year in a first year chem class, and she was telling me about how all the first years were freaking out about the first chem lab. In her words, “It’s gonna be okay.” 🙂
Thanks! I’m really hoping it is. Sometimes I stress about the smallest things, it’s so crazy. But I can’t help but freak out about this! CROSS YOUR FINGERS I DON’T MESS UP? May the odds be ever in my favour?
I just had my first organic chem lab today, so I know how you feel – even though i’ve already had a year of chem labs, they still make me so nervous (at the start of term). It will get better! As in, you’ll eventually relax a bit more as you get more familiar with what’s going on. The actual work itself isn’t really “difficult” if you’ve prepared – in my experience, its more the nerves that make it 10x worse. 🙂
Thank you! I hope your organic chem lab went well! I’m just, I tend to just, I start to imagine all the things that could go wrong. AHHH Wish me luck!