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Holmium's Trending — And Teachers Know Why
Chemistry Academia Science
1 month ago 29.2K views 0 shares
Holmium's Trending — And Teachers Know Why
The sudden spike in Holmium searches is every chemistry teacher's October triumph! That massive graph jump perfectly captures what happens when thousands of students simultaneously panic-Google "Ho" (element 67) right before their periodic table quiz. Chemistry teachers everywhere are nodding knowingly while sipping from their beaker-shaped mugs. The element isn't suddenly crucial for renewable energy or featured in a TikTok trend—just caught in the crossfire of midterm season. Poor Holmium, a rare earth element minding its own business, suddenly thrust into search engine fame for exactly one week before returning to periodic table obscurity.

The Thermodynamic Breakdown Of A Professor
Academia Physics Engineering Science
6 months ago 15.3K views 0 shares
The Thermodynamic Breakdown Of A Professor
This professor's email is reaching absolute zero on the enthusiasm scale! Teaching thermodynamic cycles while experiencing his own heat death of motivation after seeing those midterm results. F average? More like F in the chat for this poor educator's will to live! The desperation in asking students about their NPP (Nuclear Power Plant) career plans is the academic equivalent of "if you can't handle thermodynamics, how will you handle preventing the next Chernobyl?!" That existential teacher crisis when you realize your students might someday design the systems keeping us all alive... yet they couldn't even show up to class!

The Engineering Reality Check
Engineering Academia
7 months ago 9.3K views 0 shares
The Engineering Reality Check
Remember that confidence you had after high school? That sweet, innocent belief that college would be just like the last 12 years of your life? Then BAM! First year engineering midterms hit and suddenly you're questioning if you even know how to add 2+2 anymore! Nothing humbles you faster than staring at a thermodynamics problem that might as well be written in hieroglyphics while your professor casually says, "This should be straightforward." The transition from high school hero to engineering survivor is the academic equivalent of getting hit by a truck filled with differential equations!