Pondering Over Difficult Career Obstacles

           I felt like reconsidering my Organic Chemistry class this week. I studied, for instance, a whole chapter in naming organic chemicals like alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes in one day before the test. I guess you can say I’m a procrastinator, but this classification of me has its cause. Since I work better under pressure, I feel the need to not study a subject that comes naturally to me. These long chains of hydrocarbons either a straight chain or branched chain, and they have a particular way of naming them due to their IUPAC approach. I won’t get into details. Figure 1 and figure 2 at the bottom is just a taste of the introduction chapters of “Organic Nomenclature” (Naming organic structures).

Figure 1. This is a easy one but wasn't on the test. The name is 1-methyl-3-ethylbutane.

Figure 2. The picture above was just like one of the questions on the test this past Tuesday, and it just said "Name the structure." I believe it is a 5-1-methylpropylnonane.

            Furthermore, I started a crystallization lab in with it, and I felt like I didn’t get anything out of it. On the other hand, I had another lab in Microbiology, also, this past week and got why there is so many different media’s like MAC, MSA, TSA, and Blood Agar Plates (BAP). I would need some help on this puzzling question. Where can I go for further insight on organic chemistry? Other than the tutors for help, for example, I would like a mentor in organic chemistry.

            Last week I received my acceptance to the Conference at ASU for my poster to be presented. I honestly feel nervous about this presentation because I’m not a person of socialism. I would have to answer questions from experts of this field of a Bacteriologist. I look forward to this experience as an introduction to my weakness of public speech. My project hasn’t change and I’m still swabbing objects all over the campus. I would say my results show microbes, of course, everywhere. Moreover, the highest concentration based on counting Colonies Forming Units (CFU) is on drinking fountain buttons, elevators buttons, structure building door handles, rails, and classroom handles. In order from highest to lowest number of colonies, respectively.