Carbohydrates, Enolates, Carboxylic Acids Galore!

Heh, I took this from Bernard's website. Apparently this was posted on the discussion boards for Chem 233:

"I am as disgusted as everyone else in this forum about the sheer unwillingness of the chemistry department to change the curriculum of the course to benefit learning and not failing. By there own admission this course has the highest fail rate in UBC and still take little to no strides to improve that piss poor record. Dr. Bates in his own reasoning to not divulge pass finals says that there is little to gain by doing so, how can he offer these speculations with such a massive fail rate, obviously releasing past finals wouldn�t hurt. Also the chem. Department tries to stifle the likes of Dan the tutor by citing some baloney about intellectual property. If they really wanted to stop Dan the Tutor all they'd have to do is employ a tutor to tutor a mass tutoring session like Dan the Tutor and offer it for free this would put the likes of Dan the Tutor and Andrew the Tutor out of business, they only profit off in my opinion the unwillingness of the chem. Department to help. I propose to force the chem.. department to make changes by all the chem. 233 students joining in on a peaceful protest Mahatma Gandhiji style. We all simply receive our finals and hand them all in blank. I propose a finals boycott. As an individual all we can do is whine to deaf ears, but as a unified group we can make a change. Think of it we�ll all go down in history as the class that fought the man and won.(I hope) The worst that could happen is that they�re forced to scale the 0% avg. to 51% and we all pass. Newspapers, tv, will eat this all up we�ll reach worldwide acclaim. Our story will over shadow the elections, we will all be forever immortalized in history. 50 years from now our story will be legendary among the throngs of students at UBC growing more unbelievable and fantastical as the years pass. Now your probably thinking that this is just a desperate plea 4th down, overtime, bottom of the 9th suggestion by some guy that hasn�t prepared and you are right, but honestly what�s the harm in trying. "

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....let's just say I'm probably not going down in history as part of the class that fought "the man"."

Despite poor spelling/grammar of the person above, I understand the frustration. I don't necessarily support his boycott demonstrated in such fashion but regardless, I still wish a very honest good luck to all those braving the Organic Chemistry final on monday. I hope I don't see any of you in the summer. Cheers!