Orgo Memes

Every chemistry student knows the truth - inorganic chemistry is all smiles and sunshine until organic chemistry shows up wearing sunglasses and stealing your will to live! The transition from memorizing the periodic table to drawing endless carbon chains is like going from riding a bicycle to piloting a rocket ship blindfolded. Carbon really said "watch me bond with LITERALLY EVERYTHING in the coolest way possible" and chemists have been suffering ever since. Those hexagons will haunt your dreams!

The chemistry student's descent into academic despair is a perfect representation of the E2 reaction in organic chemistry! Just like how a nucleophile attacks and a leaving group departs, this poor soul is being attacked by Orgo (organic chemistry) while desperately reaching for help. Then comes the classic "P-Chem is harder" comment from a senior chem major - the academic equivalent of saying "you think THIS is bad?" right before our protagonist completely submerges. In an E2 reaction, the substrate loses a proton and the leaving group simultaneously - just like this student losing their sanity and their GPA in one swift mechanism! And yes, grad school truly is the ultimate leaving group - it's what happens after the reaction is complete, and you're left wondering if that activation energy was really worth crossing.

Oh the trauma of transitioning from Organic Chemistry 1 to Organic Chemistry 2! 🧪 One minute you're chilling with simple structures and reactions thinking "I got this!" Then WHAM! Suddenly you're staring at NMR spectroscopy graphs like they're ancient hieroglyphics from another dimension! It's the classic chemistry student journey: from confidently drawing benzene rings to having your brain melt when those spectral peaks show up. The jump from "hey, I can identify an alkene" to "wait, what does that triplet at 3.5 ppm mean?!" is enough to make anyone question their life choices! NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) is basically your molecules screaming their secrets at you, but in a language that makes calculus look like kindergarten finger painting. No wonder the second panel shows pure existential dread!