Oh, the sweet summer child who thinks organic chemistry is "a piece of cake." That moment when reality crashes harder than a failed column chromatography! Organic chem starts with friendly-looking carbon chains and ends with you drawing reaction mechanisms at 3 AM while questioning your life choices. The betrayal hits when you realize those "simple" hexagons actually represent a labyrinth of stereochemistry, nucleophilic substitutions, and synthesis pathways that make Game of Thrones plot twists look predictable. Trust me, the only thing organic about this experience is the pure, organic suffering.

Finally, a New Year's greeting that speaks to organic chemists who've spent countless hours staring at cyclohexane chairs. The meme cleverly transforms projection models into horses for the Year of the Fire Horse (2026). The staggered conformation (sawhorse) is indeed the most stable—minimal electron repulsion, maximum distance between substituents. Just like how we all hope our mental stability holds up through yet another year of grant rejections and failed column chromatography. Newman projections looking down the C-C bond axis? That horse is literally showing us its behind. Perfectly on-brand for how most chemistry experiments end up.