u/minidietdrpepper

I have an Orgo 1 exam coming up and I need help with deciding whats the better path. The next exam is 12 days away and its on 3 chapters of lectures.

Here's the situation:

For a couple of weeks in the semester I was hospitalized with pneumonia and I missed the first exam. My professor was super understanding and he's gonna drop that exam grade. The problem is that there's 2 exams + the Final left so its much more important that I get an awesome grade on them.

Since the class is for ORGO 1, I thought it would be better if I started from scratch (since orgo is cumulative) BUT with 12 days left until the next exam I don't know how feasible it is to master 7 chapters of organic chemistry. Studying only the 3 chapters (ch. 5-7) sounds like the better idea but since i'm already behind i'm still kind of lost on the topics. Aaaah! I just really really want to get an A on this exam.

Our chapters are on Klein's textbook:

1. Gen Chem Review 2. Molecular Reps 3. Acids/Bases 4. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes 5.Stereoisomerism 6. Chemical Reactivity 7. Nucleophilic Substitutions and Elimination

(I also posted this on the college majors subreddit but I'm not sure what the rules are on crossposts so I'm just gonna rewrite it here as well, any advice would be much appreciated!)

I am currently a sophomore finishing up an internship in a geology/planetary science lab and I'm realizing it REALLY does not match at all with what I'm interested in.

When I first started college I knew I wanted to work in the space industry so I majored in Astronomy and I started taking stem courses (chem, physics, bio, geology, calc obvi) but as I started working on projects I think what I'm really interested in is the BODY in space. Like, everything having to do with how humans can survive in space, their health, their psyche and even the habitats they could live in. I love all of that.

I asked my advisors for help but the best they could advise was an astrobiology major which after some research is more about studying the potential for life in space which ISN'T what I'm talking about. The closest I could find was maybe doing space medicine which sounds great but its also super niche and would require many years of training (that part doesn't bother me as much since no matter what major I pick i would need a masters or a PhD to really work in space science). The other options are maybe biophysics? or molecular bio? but ngl I'm a little stumped right now.