Quantitative analysis was one of the harder classes I’ve taken for my degree, but I learned a lot that I usually don’t in my other classes. Primarily because in this class, we used a lot of real world application in the lab portion of the class. Unlike any time before, this was very much a trial and error experiment that we focused on (detecting nitrate in vegetables and water samples). Normally, class labs have a set experiment with a set outcome that was previously tested to work. I liked this class a lot because we weren’t sure of the results of this experiment before hand, and also experienced a lot of setbacks that required us to use scientific problem solving skills. I enjoyed this process because I felt like it reflected how things go in labs in the real world, where everything rarely goes as planned and we often have to think of alternative solutions to make it work. Having to think of solutions by using the knowledge we’ve learned made me feel very accomplished and feel more secure with the knowledge I’ve gained throughout my years at Longwood. Below I’ve included the final poster we created for research day for CHEM 350.
