Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.
I was glad I liked chemistry.
At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.
I was particularly good at math and science.
None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven students and was taught by a rarity for our school, an exchange teacher from England, Mr. Leslie Sturges.
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
My best subjects were chemistry and math.