Teach Yourself Chemistry
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Daniel Liu, age 14, student at the University of Michigan
You can teach yourself chemistry.
Daniel Liu entered high school in Ohio when he was 10. That was after he won the Chemical Educational Foundation’s You Be the Chemist challenge. Yes, a 10-year-old beat out more than 30,000 other 5th-8th grade students nationwide.
Daniel is clearly gifted. And he has parents who support his insatiable quest for learning.
Daniel graduated high school May 2019 at age 13, with nearly 100 college credits. You see, he had been also attending the University of Toledo, taking classes such as Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry.
Now, at 14, he is the youngest research assistant in a University of Michigan chemistry lab, where he plans to graduate with a chemistry joint MD-PhD.
“There is a bit of chemistry in everything.”
Mildren Cohn earned a PhD in Chemistry in the 1930’s at Columbia university when few women were allowed
You can teach yourself chemistry.
Mildred Cohn may have graduated from her New York City high school at age 14 in 1927, got a chemistry bachelors degree in two years, and her chemistry masters degree in 1 year. But she was not allowed to pursue her doctoral degree in chemistry because grad students were required to be teaching assistants, and only men were allowed to be teaching assistants.
Mildred took a few years to work for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the precursor to NASA, during which she taught herself the essential chemistry lab skill of glass blowing, then went back to school and earned her PhD in 1938.
“I didn’t intend to be an assistant for the rest of my life, so I started a new field of research.”
Do these stories inspire you, or intimidate you?
You don’t have to have a super high IQ to teach yourself chemistry.
You don’t have to be a geek or a nerd or a dork to teach yourself chemistry.
You can be a regular person, who is interested in taking on the challenge of learning chemistry on your own.
You could get a text book and work chemistry problems on your own.
You could also use our First Year Chemistry Video Tutorials.
Common chemistry problems are worked by a college chemistry professor. Through the six series of questions, you will learn the approach to tackle all the problems you will encounter in first year high school or college chemistry: dimensional analysis, moles, stoichiometry, gases, solutions, acids & bases.
Teach yourself chemistry on your own schedule, using the videos whenever you need guidance or extra help. Or you can follow along all 100 problems in order, which prepares you for anything you will encounter in general chemistry class.
It’s exciting to learn how to convert moles!
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A challenge you are up to.
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You don’t have to compare yourself to Mildred or to Daniel.
You be you.
If you want to teach yourself chemistry, and one of our tools are right for you, you will know it.
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