Of the many interesting weeks I've had in chemistry, I have to say that this has been the most involved, and fairly difficult weeks to overcome. I didn't have a whole lot of trouble though. I think the involvement has really been my own concentration. Last week, when we had to refer to notes, I didn't have the complete picture.

However when we came back to school I came right back to the material, with the aid of my teacher and my peers. Of course even then it was still unclear, and I think so early in the week that the lab made things even more chaotic...meaning that I was given too much information and not enough instruction, so I didn't know what any of the results really meant until we looked everything over and started completing the practices. In the middle of the week the material suddenly clicked when I realized that we were only balancing equations and neglecting the numbers. Then we talked about reaction types. Then we talked about the numbers.

Wow, that was easy.

In no time I felt like I made a huge leap. During that process though I never mentioned what was going through my mind. During the earlier days of this material I was always on full load, trying to understand everything at once. I find that this happens a lot, that if there's something I don't get, I'm always trying to put it together myself. This didn't come together so quickly, but I will happily report that this week's process along with the help of my peers really made this possible. Also enjoyable were the demos. Those were cool too. I thought this was the most relevant: