Chemistry class Memes

Remember when your chemistry teacher drew those neat little electron orbital diagrams? Yeah, that's like showing a toddler a stick figure and then expecting them to paint the Sistine Chapel. The reality of molecular orbitals involves quantum mechanics, wave functions, and probability distributions that would make your graphing calculator weep. First you learn the simple s, p, d, f orbitals, then one day you stumble into advanced quantum chemistry and discover those clean little drawings were just a comforting bedtime story. The Schrödinger equation doesn't care about your feelings or your sanity.

The most accurate representation of organic chemistry I've ever seen. Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen are having a pool party up top (the cool kids of organic chem), while fluorine and sulfur at least got invited but are clearly struggling to fit in. Meanwhile, the rest of the periodic table is just... dead and forgotten at the bottom of the ocean. Anyone who's survived an organic chemistry class knows this hierarchy all too well. You spend 95% of your time drawing carbon chains with the occasional oxygen, nitrogen, or hydrogen thrown in, then suddenly your professor introduces a fluorine or sulfur and everyone panics. The rest of the elements? They might as well be mythical creatures for all the attention they get.