I enjoy telling my students stories about how researchers made their discoveries. For example, I try to make them study more frequently their lectures instead of learning all of their material the night before the big test. I recalled for them the way that benzene's aromatic ring structure was finally correctly visualized; the researcher kept on dreaming of a snake(the linear carbon chain) biting it's tail(the carbon chain becoming circular). I remind them that the brain doesn't process everything overnight. They need to give their brain time(ie, repeated studying) in order to really understand their lectures. I stll remember my… >>>
