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Chemistry is fun
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You're in the lab, trying to crystallize something. The solution sits there and does nothing. Then, in front of your eyes, it forms "the most awesome crystals you've ever seen."
It's exciting - and that's what makes chemistry fun, say Denise Lacombe and Edwin Rydberg. They're students at the University of Waterloo, both enrolled in the co-op chemistry program that lets them gain up to two years' work experience while earning a chemistry honors degree.
Denise's interest in environmental problems led her into chemistry. "It was a case of complain and do nothing, or try to understand what's happening and change things. To change things you have to understand their chemistry," she says.
For Edwin, watching the tv program "The Nature of Things" turned him on to biochemistry in grade 11.
"The whole point of science is to solve problems," they agree. No matter how difficult the problem, solutions can be found and scientists have fun doing so.
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