Ring Flipping Apps & YouTube Videos
Understanding what molecules look like, how they move, what relationships exist between atoms, are all challenging mental tasks. Here are two tools that might help. The Chairs app. $0.99 in the Apple...
View ArticleSummer Suggestion #3 – Study Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry is, despite what you may have heard, pretty much the same everywhere, whether MIT or Portland Community College. The courses that science majors and pre-meds take are 2 semesters (3...
View ArticleSummer Suggestion #1. Review key topics from Chem 101/102
The first 5 or 6 weeks of Chem 201 races through a lot of material you covered in Chem 101/102. In particular, we discuss, how molecules are held together (101/102 – atomic structure, electrons,...
View ArticlePreparing for Chem 201 – Summer Study Suggestions
Several students have asked me in the last few years, “What can I do this summer to get ready for Chem 201 next fall?” A perfectly reasonable question, and one that deserves an instructive response....
View ArticleDay 0, 2019 – the things you need to do BEFORE your first class
Welcome back to Reed. We have an exciting organic chemistry curriculum planned for the 2019-20 editions of Chem 201 and 202, and we will get off to a flying start so here goes… Reed’s first week of...
View ArticleHow to Access Financial Assistance
As you learned in Hum 110, the ancients were well-acquainted with the ever-changing fortunes of humanity. One day we are raised up, the next day we trip and fall, and who knows what the future will...
View ArticleNear Misses – How Your Phone Can Undermine You
I heard this story on NPR’s Morning Edition (6 Sept 2019) and I knew I had to share it with my students. You can read listen to the story (2:52) or read a full transcript at The Distracting Draw of...
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Halloween Spirits
Who says Reedies are all study and no fun? Halloween was celebrated up and down Eliot Hall yesterday. Nearly everyone in class found their way over to the President’s Office to grab treats (mostly...
View ArticleQuiz Scores from Quizzes #1-3
This is a report on scores for the first three in-class and take-home quizzes. As I’m sure you realize (and as I have been warning since the beginning of the semester), the material covered by quiz #3...
View ArticleChem 201 – Olde Reede version
I have retired from the Reed College faculty, effective Sept 1, 2021. This Chem 201 site hosts materials that I created for the classes I taught between Fall 2008-2019. If you are looking for a current...
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