Can anyone help me develop an interest in chemistry?

Inorganic chemistry is mostly math and seemingly unrelated facts, and it is hard to get motivated that way.

Look at it as a path towards organic chemistry, knowing how elements react and combine, which catalysts add what element to which chemicals (and why), and other facts, and you may find something that interests you.

I hated general chem, but aced both organic chem classes, because it actually related to the real world, instead of some silly arcane math problem figuring out how many joules of energy were used getting water to X temperature.

Since I am not aware of the "web of things you understand" it is difficult to give counsel, but how about this?

There are certain 'basics' to all chemistry, like lewis structures, valence electrons, electronegativity, displacement reactions, the octet rule, like-dissolves-like (polarity), electronic and molecular geometry, basic rules about the periodic table, and nomenclature (naming ions and specific types of chemicals) that is basic to ALL chemistry.

Here are some of my favorite websites on some of those subjects.

my favorite periodic table http://www.ptable.com/

http://education.jlab.org/qa/pen_number.html

http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/animations/c... Polarity animation that helps you understand polarity between elements, really good

http://www.mwt.net/~bionorse/electron%20configurat... the order of electron shells (electron configuration)

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/bonding/electrone...

http://webhost.bridgew.edu/shaefner/general/vsepr.... VSEPR theory (electronic geometry)

http://www.ausetute.com.au/lewisstr.html About lewis structures

http://wb.chem.lsu.edu/htdocs/people/sfwatkins/MER...

http://www.chem.memphis.edu/bridson/FundChem/T11a1...

Hope these help!

Developing interest and doing well go hand in hand with each other. It's hard to do well if you're not interested, and hard to be interested in something that you find really difficult. It's hard to predict what would rekindle your interest, but you might try reading some science that isn't presented in a textbook. Popular science magazines, for example, which will talk about applications of chemistry and physics without you having to learn a lot of details about how the science works. Maybe that would pique your curiosity enough to make it more interesting to learn the underlying concepts... but if you really aren't finding science enjoyable and accessible, perhaps it simply isn't for you, and you would enjoy putting your effort into something that you find more interesting.

Chemistry is fun to learn cause it can make you realize how much thought God put into creating the world!

Chemistry is cool to learn about sometimes, and the theory is great and all, but a real INTEREST is hard to develop. Chemistry is just like that....