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Show 33 five courses in chemistry as an undergraduate. After two semesters of general chemistry during his freshman year, he took qualitative and quantitative analysis his sophomore year and he had a course in volumetric analysis the first semester of his junior year.3 His great interest in chemistry would come after he rejected his two first choices for a profession. Eyring's studies at Arizona were enjoyable to him and not without some challenge. One of the most trying courses for him was engineering drawing and descriptive geometry. The first semester of his first year he had a very difficult time with his perspective drawings, but managed with considerable struggle to earn a C grade, one of the few low grades of his college career. During the second semester he was determined to get an understanding and mastery of this important engineering subject; a lot of hard work produced an A grade for the course. It might be said that no subject that interested Eyring was too difficult to master. To him, there are no problems that can not be solved, it becomes simply a matter of interest and time. That attitude dominated his many years of chemical research. To support himself at school, Eyring waited on tables at the school lunch room and graded papers for his professors. During his first two summer vacations he returned to Pima to work on the farm with his father. Throughout this period he made enough to keep himself at school and still send some money home to help there. The summer after his junior year (l922) he obtained work with the Inspiration Copper Company in Miami, Arizona. first taste of what mining life was like. Here he obtained his Since he was a prospective mining engineer he was given a variety of different jobs throughout the |
