sorry for your HS chemistry experience - too bad - chemistry is difficult enough w/out having such experiences to really turn people off.

For myself, I couldn't find the physics department meeting as freshman in college - it had been moved twice and was now all the way across campus, so I was wandering about replete w/ the obligatory beannie cap (this will date me for sure) when the chairman of the chemistry department saw me and invited me to sit and listen to his "spiel". I changed majors the next day - the chairman of the physics department was stunned - I hadn't declared a major yet so he couldn't understand how I could change one - never looked back since.
alkymst