Fuck You Nature: The Inescapable Chemistry Edition

Physics: the only subject that makes you feel like you're waiting in line at the world's most exclusive club, only to be told "Not tonight, buddy!" 🚫 While math and chemistry welcome students with open arms, physics is that snooty bouncer sending you in the opposite direction. Why? Because physics doesn't just want you to understand the universe—it wants you to question your entire existence while solving a pendulum problem! 😵‍💫

The ultimate chemical identity crisis! This molecular structure is LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), but the meme cleverly plays on the double meaning of "E" - the street name for MDMA (ecstasy) versus the stereochemistry designation in organic chemistry. Those dotted bonds represent different spatial orientations that can make a molecule either biologically active or completely useless. Chemistry students staring at this during finals week are probably thinking "I'd rather just take the other E and forget this exam exists." The struggle between recreational chemistry and academic chemistry has never been more relatable!

Ever been betrayed by your own chemical knowledge? The meme perfectly captures that moment in organic chemistry when you realize Tennessine and Tosyl Group are practically identical twins! Both abbreviated as "Ts" in chemical notation, these two will have you double-checking your notes faster than a reaction reaches equilibrium. Chemistry professors everywhere are secretly giggling as students frantically try to figure out which "Ts" they're supposed to be using in their synthesis problems. It's basically the Spider-Man pointing meme of the periodic table!

Ever wondered if you could taste science? This hilarious guide breaks down which scientific disciplines you should (or definitely should NOT) lick! Chemistry's emphatic "NO!!!!!" is spot on because, well, acids and bases aren't exactly tongue-friendly. Herpetology's "bad plan BAD PLAN" had me crying—imagine licking a venomous snake for science! 😂 The zoology entry flips the script brilliantly: "In zoology, science licks YOU." Meanwhile, epidemiology's desperate plea "FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD PLEASE DO NOT" feels especially relevant after recent years! Computer scientists apparently debug with their tongues—who knew that's what the 9V battery test was really training us for? My favorite might be geology's honest assessment: "Sometimes needed. Sometimes dangerous." Rock identification does occasionally involve the tongue test (for certain minerals), but licking uranium? Hard pass!

The evolution of perception is brutal! First, you see a hat because adulthood has crushed your imagination. Then you spot an elephant inside a boa constrictor because your inner child still has a pulse. But if you immediately recognize that reaction coordinate diagram showing transition states and energy changes—congratulations, organic chemistry has permanently rewired your brain! The Little Prince reference is just the chef's kiss on this perfect encapsulation of how science education gradually transforms wonder into technical expertise. Your reward for years of study? Identifying free-energy diagrams instead of elephants. Worth it?

The eternal tragedy of experimental chemistry, summed up perfectly. You spend hours meticulously planning your synthesis based on some paper from 2018 where they claim "excellent yields" and "straightforward purification." Then reality hits. Your beautiful theoretical reaction produces a mysterious brown sludge that smells like Satan's armpit. Meanwhile, your lab notebook gradually transforms from scientific documentation into a collection of increasingly desperate question marks and sad face doodles. The gap between published methods and reproducibility is where chemists develop their drinking habits.