Closing out the week. And we go back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Jeremy wants to spend his free time tutoring chemistry at the local community college. They have a brand new, nice tutoring center built that he toured a few weeks ago. Usually they hire tutors, but Jeremy wanted to donate his time, he just has to take a chemistry test to make sure he knows chemistry. Turns out first year chemistry is really hard when you haven’t really looked at it since…well, since the last century. After he finished his test, he groaned and then handed me a copy of the test and…
Then I tried to take the test and….I’ve forgotten how the orbitals fill in atoms and how to calculate various enthalpies and also, I don’t remember the constants and what the units of the constants are.
So it is/was kind of humbling. I didn’t even finish taking my test. Jeremy was going to take the test TODAY, but he got an extension until Monday, so he has the weekend to study. And he’s really studying. And he says he’s having a lot of fun. He was stymied on a question, and I told him to enter it into ChatGPT – we are all old school here, I still have the same model of scientific calculator I used in high school that I use almost everyday – I prefer it over the calculator on my phone, so we never use ChatGPT (I know it’s fantastic, but I find it tends towards…boring) – Jeremy was reluctant to use AI, but I tried to tell him he should do it just so he knows what the kids are doing.
