Chemists > Biochemists 😎😎

The organic chemistry student's journey in six painful panels! You start with such hope - all that fancy glassware, pristine reagents, and carefully written synthesis plans. Then reality strikes! Hours of meticulous work only to discover your beautiful reaction has transformed into a mysterious black goop that defies identification. That moment when you realize your precious compound has "tarred" is the chemical equivalent of watching your dreams dissolve faster than sodium in water. Every chemistry student has experienced that soul-crushing moment of staring at their flask thinking, "I've created... nothing useful." The progression from scientific optimism to lying on the floor questioning your life choices is basically Organic Chemistry 101! The truest test isn't understanding reaction mechanisms - it's maintaining your will to live when your synthesis turns to sludge for the fifth time this week!

The formula [ α ] λ T = α / l × c is the specific rotation equation in optical chemistry, and someone's gone full-on "explain it like I'm five" with those labels. 🔬 It's like watching your professor frantically annotate during office hours after you've asked "but what does each symbol actually mean?" for the fifth time. The desperation is palpable. Next thing you know, they'll be drawing stick figures to explain chirality. This is basically the chemistry equivalent of those recipe blogs that tell you their life story before giving you the actual recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

The scientific hierarchy in all its puppet-mastering glory! Math sits at the top pulling the strings of Physics, who controls Chemistry, who manipulates Biology, who yanks around Psychology, who's probably controlling some poor undergrad we can't even see. This is the academic food chain that no professor will admit to but secretly knows is true. Pure mathematicians love nothing more than reminding everyone they're the puppet masters of all science—right before they fail to calculate a proper tip at dinner. The irony is exquisite.

The noble gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) are giving that electron the HARD rejection! These chemical snobs have their outer shells completely filled—they've got all the electrons they need and couldn't care less about sharing or bonding. Meanwhile, that lonely electron is desperately trying to find a home, like showing up to a party with snacks only to get the door slammed in its face. The noble gases are basically the chemistry world's equivalent of "new electron, who dis?" 🧪✋

The professor's dark humor is more unstable than those free radicals! 🧪 Chemistry students expecting to rank cyclohexyl radicals got a political curveball instead. The joke plays on the double meaning of "radical" - both as unstable chemical compounds with unpaired electrons AND as extremist political figures. The professor's "just kidding" saves them from an international incident! German humor: unexpectedly spicy and potentially career-ending. 💥 Next question: rank these professors by their likelihood of getting fired!

The meme shows the chemical evolution of ethane into increasingly impossible structures! Regular ethane (C₂H₆) is a normal, happy molecule with its single bond between carbons. Then we have "cycloethane" - which would require bending carbon bonds into an impossibly strained ring. And finally "bicyclo[0.0.0]ethane" which is basically molecular fantasy fiction where the carbons are somehow triple-bonded AND in a ring structure simultaneously. It's like watching ethane descend into molecular madness! Chemistry students everywhere are having structural formula nightmares right now.