The most enjoyable subject...

  In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice, they are not.

Albert Einstein

The career or profession of your life is always an elusive, but important issue. As a young adult, my parents, friends, magazines, institutions in the city,... were the source of information. Nowadays, you find accurate information at home in front of a computer or even on your smartphone.

You click here and there to find information about the university that deserves your presence, the career that seems the most promising, that has the best study programme, one whose prestige might be helpful to find a good job, an institution with well-known researchers, an institution that ensures a brilliant future...

Chemistry Lab

Eventually, you find a suitable career and, filled with content, start attending classes waiting for the best class ever and, at the beginning, this seems to happen with most subjects. As time goes by, this excitement changes to a state of normality that persists until you eventually graduate and, on looking back, appreciate their contribution to your personal growth.

In your mind, however, you shall dearly keep a small bunch of subjects, activities in classrooms, in laboratories, activities that had a special flavour because of the contents... the classmates... the teaching staff... the season of  the year... and/or any other activity that made quite an impression on you.

Safety Chemistry  Lab

Laboratory activities demand most of our attention and usually strengthen teamwork, improving the desirable friendliness of students with a common goal. Thus, lab work becomes quite attractive, particularly to those eager to set up equipment to do, for example, simple distillations, solvent extraction... Others feel satisfaction upon observation and study of optical phenomena, such as dispersion of white light through prisms, reflection, diffraction.

I actually enjoyed learning chemistry/physics/biology in the labs when I was in high school. The possibility of observing actual phenomena with the naked eyes and also doing my own experiments gave me an indescribable pleasure that led me to observe with curiosity all the processes occurring in our daily life.

Yet, theoretical activities in the classroom also caught my attention; especially my teacher of biology who created an atmosphere of mystery to uncover the "truth" under common living processes, who made me dream of the varied "worlds" existing in our daily life. Thus, the theoretical data ranged from solid ground information in a particular issue to doing exercises, analyses, and other learning activities.

So, theory or practice? I say both.

Now it's your turn:

Write about your favourite subject this term.

• Name of the subject:
• Describe what you do in classes
• Explain why you like the subject
• State whether your classes are mostly theoretical and/or practical
• What makes the subject interesting

Other considerations that you might use:

• People participating in the teaching activities (teacher(s), auxiliaries, ...)
• Importance of teaching people in your choice.
• Importance of the subject matter in your decision...
• The approximate number of students in the class.
• Main contents you have seen

Word Count: 180
Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts, plus comment on your teacher's post