Supercomputing Memes

That special moment when your computational chemistry simulation becomes an exercise in existential despair. Two weeks of your life sacrificed to the VASP gods (Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package with Density Functional Theory), meticulously calculating how molecules stick to surfaces, only for the results to violate every prediction and possibly several laws of physics. Nothing says "reconsider your career choices" quite like watching your supercomputer time produce garbage that would make even Schrödinger's cat play dead for real.