"Fill In The Blank"

We've been plannin' this weekend for a week and a half
Hope you ain't thinkin' that we're movin' too fast
This trip can be whatever you want it to
I'll pick where we go and you can pick what we do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
I know a little spot thirty miles outta town
We can do what we want, won't be nobody around
I love hanging with your friends and your family too
But there's some things that only two people should do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby
We could
To some music real slow
'Til we can't no more
If the clouds roll in we could, in the rain
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
Yeah the options are endless, baby fill in the blank
Oh Yeah

One of the central lessons of chemistry is that the starting and ending points of a reaction don’t have much to do with the business in between. Your journey through AP chemistry is much the same. In the beginning, you decided to take AP chemistry. In the end, you’ll take the AP chemistry exam. These moments are fixed points on the horizon behind you and the horizon in front of you. Time will move you from one point to the other. What you make of the intervening landscape is mostly up to you. But along the way, we’d like to help.

The College Board is very clear about the chemistry concepts and problems it wants you to master. The clear guidelines provided by the College Board lie at the heart of this blog. We emphasize what the Board emphasizes, and we suspect that those are the very things that you’d like to emphasize as you prepare for the exam.

Chemistry is the practical science, which is one reason why a practical attitude permeates this blog. We also realize that you’re not simply reading this blog — you’re using it for a specific purpose. Your simple, clear goal: to ace the AP Chemistry exam. You want your grasp of chemistry to be just as clear as your goal for the AP exam. This blog is here to support your quest for chemistry clarity; think of it as window cleaner for your brain. (Window cleaner is largely an aqueous solution of ammonia, by the way.)

The structure of this blog largely follows the sequence you might follow in an AP chemistry course, so it lends itself to use as companion text as you go through the course. On the other hand, we have written the blog to be quite modular, so you can pick and choose the posting that interest you in any sequence. Cross-references are provided in any instances where there is must-know information discussed in another posting. You don’t have to read this thing cover to cover.