Alazzar’s Reviews > Introductory Chemistry for Today > Status Update

06/30/2013: Time to knock out another three chapters, which should take me to the end of the book. Should be interesting to see how much skimming I'll do this time around.

06/16/2013: Read my three chapters, but unfortunately I'm just not into the subject anymore. With the first three chapters, I did sample problems as I went along and some of the stuff at the end of each chapter. In chapters 4-6, I cut out the stuff at the end of the chapter. Now I'm not even doing the samples, nor am I really retaining what I'm reading.

I am a terrible wannabe science enthusiast.

06/15/2013: Resuming at the beginning of chapter 7!

05/12/2013: Knocked out another three chapters. I've reached a point where I'm not terribly concerned with memorizing facts (it's not like I'm studying for a class or test, here), and am instead mostly just doing problems out of the book because they're fun. (Chemistry, I've decided, is the "mathy" science, which is exactly the type of science I like.) Will resume later!

Taking a break from this at the end of chapter 3 because there's no way I can read an entire textbook before switching back to fiction. I am enjoying what I've read so far, though, and I look forward to resuming later!

Picked up a copy of this textbook's 7th edition paperback at a used bookstore; according to the introduction, the paperback format is a two-volume thing, but they didn't have the other at the store. Oh well--I'm just glad to have a chance to re-learn the stuff I've completely forgotten since getting a C in high school chemistry.