Last day of orgo lecture and lab today. Just wow. It's been such a rollercoaster journey in every sense of the word. Blood, sweat, and tears (but actually). I've cried over orgo, slaved away in lab and over psets on sunny days, dyed my lab coat and my fingers lovely shades of yellow, used more acetone than I can quantify, forgotten virtually all the letters of the alphabet except C, H, and O (okay that's an overstatement), and drawn more hexagons than I would ever want to count.
But parting with it is still hard. What do you mean I don't get to have my own fume hood again until I join a lab? What about my late night bike rides to Frick to turn in my labs and psets? When else will I get to show off my lovely hexagon and arrow-drawing skills? As much stress as orgo caused me, and as many times that I just wanted to ignore it and drown my sorrows in things not orgo-related, I still have to say that it's beautiful. It really is, and I love it, even if I might not want to spend my life doing it.
But hey, we still have the final. And who knows, maybe I'll come back to it.
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