who had been exposed to stuff I had
never even heard of. So I was trying not
to be naive about that.” But chemistry
was beyond what she had imagined. The
students in her class were competitive.
“I had a lot of trouble even talking with
people from those classes,” she went on.
“They didn’t want to share their study
habits with me. They didn’t want to talk
about ways to better understand the stuff
that we were learning, because that
might give me a leg up.”
In spring of her sophomore year, she
enrolled in organic chemistry—and
things only got worse. She couldn’t do
it: “You memorize how a concept
works, and then they give you a
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