The Eternal Postdoc Identity Crisis

The chemistry gang wars are real! This is the perfect representation of the eternal rivalry between organic and inorganic chemistry students. The "homies drawing hexagons" refers to organic chemistry's obsession with carbon-based compounds, which are typically represented with hexagonal benzene rings. Meanwhile, inorganic chemistry deals with metals, minerals, and coordination compounds that rarely feature those satisfying hexagons. Chemistry students will instantly recognize this divide - spend 8 hours drawing perfect hexagons for your orgo final and you too will develop strong opinions about inorganic chemistry and its weird electron configurations!

The biology exam question asks what gives blood its red color, with the correct answer being hemoglobin (option B). But someone snuck in "communism" as option E, playing on the classic "red = communism" association! The bottom image shows a Soviet soldier with red blood cells superimposed on his face declaring "I serve the Soviet Union" - as if the red blood cells themselves are loyal communist comrades! The iron in hemoglobin might be abundant, but apparently our red blood cells have been serving the communist agenda this whole time! Biology teachers everywhere are both facepalming and secretly giggling at this one.

The perfect illustration of the undergraduate science experience! On the left, studying the biosphere starts with simple grass, then suddenly jumps to rabbits, foxes, and finally a crude drawing of a human face. Meanwhile, on the right, studying the atmosphere goes from zero to full meteorological nightmare with heat domes, pressure systems, and complex atmospheric layers that would make even weather forecasters cry. It's that classic university bait-and-switch! Week 1: "Here's a cute bunny." Week 3: "EXPLAIN THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM OR FAIL." The right side is basically every professor saying "This will be on the exam" while showing a diagram that looks like it was created by a tornado scientist having a seizure. No wonder undergrads develop a thousand-yard stare by senior year! The expectation vs. reality gap in science education is wider than the ozone hole!

Someone innocently asks for book recommendations that made people cry, and an engineering student delivers the emotional damage! Engineering Mechanics: Statics (14th Edition) has reduced countless students to tears with its brutal problem sets and mind-bending force diagrams. Nothing says "existential crisis" quite like calculating the exact force needed to support a bridge while your social life collapses! The textbook doesn't just teach equilibrium—it teaches you the equilibrium between sanity and submitting your homework at 11:59 PM with shaking hands. Every engineering student just felt this in their soul!

The engineering student's dilemma—press "Study" or "Cry"? Why not multitask and do both simultaneously! That's the hallmark of engineering efficiency. Nothing says "I've mastered differential equations" quite like solving them through a veil of tears. The beauty of engineering education is that it teaches you to optimize suffering—you'll learn to calculate exactly how many tears per problem set is thermodynamically optimal. And they say engineers aren't good with emotions!

When your experimental error is so catastrophic it breaks the laws of mathematics! That 347% error isn't just a mistake—it's a whole new dimension of wrongness. Two brilliant minds contemplating how they've somehow managed to achieve the impossible: being more than 100% incorrect. This is what happens when you divide by zero, use the wrong units, or simply let the lab equipment choose violence that day. At least they're facing this mathematical abomination together—misery loves company, especially when you've just invented a new type of failure!