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Why do I have to take chemistry to be an environmental science major? I’m literally just a girl. It’s all math, too. No chemistry involved.
190 upvotes, 23 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Environmental Baddies. "Why do I have to take chemistry to be an environmental science major? I’m literally just a girl. It’s all math, too. No chemistry involved."
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Anonymous 1w

let me hold your hand when i say this… environmental science is mostly chemistry

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Anonymous 1w

Literally the only reason I didn’t pursue vet school - Ochem 😭

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Anonymous 1w

If you don’t understand why you need chemistry for that this far into it then you NEED to change your fucking major cuz holy shit, this is like an engineer asking when they’re ever going to use physics

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Anonymous 1w

env sci major and honestly grateful i had to take chem, it has so much to do with my job and my research as much as i hated taking it

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Anonymous 1w

Same!! I can't continue on because I keep failing chem

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Anonymous 1w

so glad my university didn’t make me do chem for esci

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Anonymous 1w

Sounds like you should have gone environmental studies lmao you cannot have science without chem and math bro

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Anonymous 1w

Math is beautiful though

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Anonymous 1w

How did u not know ur major is math and science heavy

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Anonymous 1w

Try environmental studies (that’s what I’m doing post failing math and chem twice)

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Anonymous 6d

This is why I switched from biology to a marketing major. 8 years of that to get a good job like being a vet? Hell naw

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

Damn mine made me take a gen chem series AND I still have to take one ochem class😔

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

Surprisingly so is electrical engineering, I think the lie that “calc 2 is the last math class” is misleading. Engineers and scientists usually need a ton of math and chemistry/physics

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Anonymous 1w

that is what environmental studies would be

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6d

Misread, my bad

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 6d

My required chemistry course, an introductory general chemistry course, had whole units on quantum mechanics, physics, light mechanics. I’m an environmental science major because I want to be an entomologist, someone who studies bugs. Understanding things like organic chemistry is important for my major, sure. But I will quite literally never calculate the speed of light using Einstein’s theory of relativity in my life, ever again.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

We had no organic chemistry nor environmental chemistry unit BTW. So I had to learn about all of that physics and quantum mechanics and even theoretical psychics and particle physics, again in a Chem 101 course. None of that is even remotely related to my major, which is why I will forever complain about chemistry required for students in my major. And I know students in my major at other institutions went through the same thing, it’s not just a thing with my school.

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 6d

Not offered at my school, unfortunately. Most related major is Biology. And a large part of the reason I’m in Environmental Science is because it’s less math heavy than Biology.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 6d

I tried pretty damn had to apply the lessons to my major. But we had 4 physics units in my chemistry course and literally not a single environmental or organic chemistry unit. Just as an example.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6d

I’m aware. The big problem I had with my chemistry course is that it was NOT mostly chemistry. I didn’t know chemistry was just math and physics.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

Genuine question but how did you make it this far without knowing that chemistry is literally 100% physics?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

science is literally just applied math. physics is the base of chemistry, and chemistry is the base of biology. you’ll have to deal with it the rest of your life, so i would consider changing majors if i were you

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

Yep! Because you have to understand the physics behind why things happen to truly understand anything more complicated like chem or bio

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