Whenever I come upon a problem like this, my first approach is to try to figure out what led me to this point. Why am I not taking to Chemistry like a duck takes to water? What isn’t sticking in my mind that should stick? Hell, what don’t I know about Chemistry that I should know? And why didn’t I learn that stuff in the first place? 

When I took Chemistry in high school, I was attending a small, private Christian school that taught Young Earth Creationism. In fact, the Chemistry “textbook” (if you could even call it that) we learned from at my Christian school spent far more time shitting on evolution than it did teaching us Chemistry. 

On top of that, I was dealing with constant lung and sinus infections, as my Cystic Fibrosis was really starting to progress. In fact, the only reason why I decided to attend that private, Christian school, was because there were very few students. In fact, only nine students (including myself) made up the entire high school. Fewer students meant I’d be exposed to fewer germs, and it also meant that I’d get more one-on-one help from the teachers. 

Needless to say, I did not learn shit about Chemistry in 10th grade. 

It’s not my fault that I didn’t learn shit in 10th grade (or throughout most of my high school years). But, now that I’m a university student going for a degree in BioTechnology- which is basically BioChemistry but more technical- it is my responsibility to fill in the gaps in my Chemistry knowledge. 

Good news is, if I put my mind to it, I know I can pass Chemistry 1, if not outright master it.