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06-28-2007, 05:23 PM
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| Atkins is the book used by MIT in its intro chem course...if you read that and know everything in it thoroughly, then there's no excuse for getting less than a perfect score on the local exam. | 
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06-28-2007, 06:25 PM
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| Cool, maybe I'll read it. Where can you get the Atkins book? Anybody know how much it costs? thnx~ | |
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06-29-2007, 09:34 AM
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| ^^^ WHOA.....$120! are you crazy?!!?!
HALF.COM/BOOKS..... | |
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06-29-2007, 02:25 PM
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| Yeah I bought my books on half.com for 2nd semester. First semester I was a nervous first-term freshman that wanted all my books right away and didn't want to wait for them to come in the mail.
But definitely use half.com from now on everybody. | |
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06-29-2007, 03:04 PM
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| ok thanks XD | |
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06-30-2007, 09:38 AM
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| let's keep this going.........who made it past locals?.......past nationals?.....to the camp?.........ON THE ICHO TEAM?!!!??!!!
AND.......what book did YOU use???!!?? | |
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06-30-2007, 01:48 PM
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| Well Atkins--->Carey is how it's done for nationals---> camp....once you make the IChO team you're pretty much left with doing practice problems and maybe reading a specialized book on Biochemistry... | |
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06-30-2007, 05:03 PM
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| piccolojunior, have you made it on ICho team?...it's only 4 people, right? | |
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06-30-2007, 06:56 PM
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| He didn't make it past nationals, but he keeps telling this story about how he should have made it to the camp, but made a stupid mistake or something, and didn't. | |
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07-01-2007, 05:15 PM
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| pmub
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07-01-2007, 08:43 PM
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| i know you people have more to say.....especially all the future chemists on CC. | |
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07-01-2007, 10:12 PM
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| Yah shravas is right...I guess it just wasn't meant to be, seeing as how no one told me about these killer olympiads until I found them for myself last summer XD
And yeah, the best thing to do now is to study the material thoroughly for the first go around...say, through the fall. Then, come back and review it in the late winter. The month before nationals could be best spent reading Carey and doing old problems...but I'm gonna avoid that dilemma and just read both textbooks through the end of the calendar year and keep doing practice problems until I transform into a botle of bromotoluene O____O (lame chemistry nomenclature joke...lawl) | |
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07-02-2007, 06:40 PM
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| bump.......er sticker | |
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07-02-2007, 09:39 PM
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| grrr......i know you people have more to say! | |
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