<p>how is College and HS chemistry different? I really want to major in chem in college. I’m currently a senior who is taking AP Chem and hate it. Everyone says that the teacher is bad, but I’m kind of doubting if i should major in chem now.</p>
<p>It’s quite different. You can see in the first lecture of the MIT open courseware “Principles of Chemical Science” 2008 that the MIT instructor didn’t like it in high school either. And now she is a Chemistry professor at the Massachusetts fre*** Institute of Technology (tied for # 1 in the nation for chemistry graduate programs). Also the general chemistry in college will be different than when you focus more on specific aspects. My organic chemistry prof didn’t even especially like chemistry in college until he took organic chemistry, then he was hooked.</p>
<p>I had a bad chemistry teacher in high school too, but fortunately I had to take a general chemistry course, and found out how cool it is. That said, of course it depends on your individual school, but I loved the labs in college which I found boring in high school, and the lectures generally tied into the labs, so that made them interesting: you get to see what you read about actually happen, you don’t just had to imagine the things being described in the books happening.</p>