Chemistry professor Memes

The chemistry genius who created this meme deserves a Nobel Prize in Humor! It's playing with the concept of chirality in organic chemistry—where molecules can exist as mirror images of each other (like your left and right hands) but aren't superimposable. The L and D prefixes are actual stereochemical notations that indicate the spatial configuration of molecules. The punchline "I hope this goes chiral" is brilliant because viral content spreads widely, while chiral molecules exist in two distinct forms. Chemistry students everywhere are currently snorting into their Erlenmeyer flasks!

The eternal struggle of organic chemistry students! On the far ends of the intelligence bell curve, both the simple-minded and the geniuses agree: "You don't have to show protons leaving when drawing mechanisms." Meanwhile, the middle-IQ chemistry professor is having an absolute meltdown: "NO!! YOU MUST EXPLICITLY SHOW PROTONS LEAVING WITH ANY BASE PRESENT!!" This is the perfect illustration of horseshoe theory but for chemical mechanisms. The truly brilliant and the blissfully clueless arrive at the same conclusion while the "well-actually" crowd in the middle insists on pedantic details. Next time your prof has a conniption over your arrow-pushing shortcuts, just point to this bell curve and ask which side they're on!