i've recently begun college at a mid-tier school with solid

OP again- also what separates it from general chem?

>>8789816
theyre med students. they think fucking calculus is hard.

>>8789830
As a med student, can confirm that I find calc very difficult. That said, organic chem isnt really that hard once you get a feel for it (studied it for two years before getting accepted to my university)

>>8789816
They try to brute force memorize everything instead of understanding the underlying logic of mechanisms

Dunno pal. Was very easy for me. Name reactions can be a pain to remember though.

>>8789876
well glad to think not even med students think orgo is hard
my point still stands: anyone who says orgo is hard can't be trusted

ochem isn't too bad first semester when it's all arrow pushing, it gets difficult when you have to memorize named reactions and do retrosynthesis. also it's worlds apart from gen chem in a good way

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Chem grad student here, I TA'd orgo for two years.
Bio majors usually need to decide between taking orgo or something else. Therein lies the source of the whining.

Also premeds get the fuck out of /sci/, I'm sick of you cunts (and I want to let you know that I take pleasure in fucking your grades and watching you cry). The lot of you often also struggle.

I'm at a community college in Calculus 3 right now, which has about 20 students this semester. Meanwhile, Organic Chemistry 2 has 3. I've only had general chemistry 2, but I am continuously told that organic 2 is the hardest class on campus.

It's considered difficult because it's the most difficult science class premeds will take. At that point in the game (sophmore year), there are still a ton of hopeful premed brainlets, who then get culled by the first real science class they take and fuck off back to the liberal arts, while complaining how hard o-chem is for the rest of eternity. It's a weeder course in a lot of schools, which means the difficulty is intentionally turned up, but no more so than any other second year stem class