08-27-2020, 02:59 AM
(08-21-2020, 03:09 PM)rachel83az Wrote: Working my way through Chemistry. It absolutely feels like it has 5x as much stuff (at least in this first "week") as the other ASU courses. Unlike other courses that say 18 hours and it takes you 2 or 3, chemistry may well take you the full 18 hours. We'll see what happens with future weeks. Thankfully, I don't absolutely need this course but I've been interested in chemistry for a while so I'd really like to get through the material.
Week 2 is not quite as bad but there are still a lot of videos and things to work through. You need to work on this every single day, unlike other ASU courses. Week 1, BTW, dumps you into quantum mechanics. It feels a little bit backward to me. It feels like insisting that you must know how an internal combustion engine works before you are allowed to drive a car. I get that this is "for engineers" but it really feels closer to a 200 or 300 level course than an entry-level 100-level course.