It was most likely your teacher. Chemistry was very interesting when I took it sophomore year. Physics was without a doubt way better though. Taking those classes earlier also opened the door for Astronomy senior year. I'd say take the Chemistry class.
Yeah, see I'm not really interested in mathy-chemistry-numberish related stuff. I like history, psychology and creative writing; things like that.
Basically what I suggest for high school is to just take everything that is required and then put all of your elective classes towards things you're interested in. As said many times, if you like that sort of thing and are interested in it, go for it by all means.
As a freshman, though, you may not know what you are interested in until you take certain classes. I was like that until sophomore year when I got interested in U.S. history, cold war, and then psychology and sociology later on.
Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.I do plan on going into the field of astronomy/astrophysics. So I'm thinking if I don't want to take earlybird classes, I think I should take chemistry.
So yeah, you'd probably want to go down that road; chemistry, physics, and astronomy. Having the option to start those sort of classes your freshman year is good. I wish I could have taken the history and psychology classes I wanted when I was a freshman.
