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--- Lu Abel  wrote:

Don't hate me, but I was actually able to navigate (trying to keep us
somewhat on-topic here...) organic chem way back when, though I doubt
if I remember much of it today.

But I do still remember my MEPB memory-aid for the first 4 of the
methane series (meth-, eth-, prop-, but- if I remember correctly),
handily derived from the initials of a couple of friends at the time.
Amazing what stays with you over the years... ;-)

--
GregR


> Greg R. wrote:
> > --- Lu Abel  wrote:
> >
> >> In fact, just like Bowditch's name stayed on American Practical
> >> Navigator, it looks like French's name stays on drafting texts:
> >>
> >
> > The irony of the Amazon listing is that the $165.94 asking price
> would
> > buy a pretty decent CAD program...  ;-)
> Yeah, welcome to today's world of text-books.   I'm an old dog, but
> have
> a kid in college.   Her textbooks typically cost over $1000 per year.
>
> She's a pre-med and took organic chemistry this year.   Text
> (including
> a subscription to some sort of web service, not quite sure what it
> did)
> cost her $350.   Then she had to spend another $120 for an American
> Chemical Society study guide for the ACS-standard final exam.   Guess
>
> the only pleasure from all that is that (a) she actually liked O-chem
>
> (which nobody does) and (b) she got somewhere in the 90th percentile
> on
> the exam.
>
> Lu
>
> >
>


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