For science majors, organic chemistry is that class. You know, the one that constantly makes you question why you chose the major you did and causes you to contemplate dropping out about a million times a week. If you've taken organic, chances are you understand the feeling of your hope dwindling until you've eventually given up all hopes of understanding resonance, synthesis, and mechanisms. Needless to say organic chemistry gives nearly everyone alkynes of trouble!
1. You breezed through General Chemistry last year and now you’re going to take Organic Chemistry.
You’ve heard nothing but horror stories, but you’re going into the class with an open mind. It can’t be that bad, right? Maybe you’ll be that one student out of 100 that just gets it.
2. After a week of class, you are slightly confused, but you remain hopeful.
You'll just read the textbook and it'll magically make sense like it always does. You're determined to kick organic chemistry's butt.
3. It’s test day.
You’ve studied for hours and you’re ready to rock it.
4. You read the first question.
Immediately you think, “When the hell did we learn this? Okay, maybe I’ll know the next one. Still no idea. Well shit.”
5. You finish the test.
You now realize that you are not, in fact, that lucky person who magically understands organic chemistry. You are one of the 99 others hopelessly befuddled by benzene rings.
6. This is the first test you’ve ever failed so you go back to your room and weep...
No, seriously, I'm fine. Those aren't tears. I got something in my eye.
7. You get the test back: 36 percent.
Good news you were
average. You and your classmates ask each other about scores and bond over how
poorly you all did. You hear some girl exclaiming about how she got
an 85, and you immediately debate whether it would be worth it to murder her so she doesn't ruin the curve. It's for the greater good.
8. A few more weeks of classes pass and you feel yourself getting more and more lost.
You’re eternally confused, but you still manage to study a little bit for your next test.
You refuse to completely give up.9. Next test: 38 percent.
Hey! Better than the last one and
still average. At this point, you're the kitten, and the top of the bed is understanding organic chemistry.
10. You officially abandon any previous disillusioned hopes of being successful and accept defeat.
The universe is organic chemistry. Obvi.
11. Professor: “We have a test on Friday. Be sure to study!”
You can think of approximately 574 activities you would rather do than study for this test, and one of them is walking into a tiger's cage wearing Lady Gaga's meat dress.
12. You don’t study at all, and you still get a 34 percent.
O.K., you’re officially never studying for this class again because you’re not going to put yourself through hell for an extra 2 percent...
13. You make it through the rest of the semester with average test scores.
Your final is worth 20 percent of your grade and you are hanging
onto a passing grade by a thread. It’s all come down to this one test. You're completely freaking out, but you try to play it cool.
14. You know you should study but you just can't make yourself do it.
You decide to ignore the crippling anxiety you’re having about the possibility of failing and make better use of your precious time.
15. You walk out of your final praying you passed.
If you fail and have to spend another semester listening to 50 minute lectures about Friedel-Crafts alkylation and hydroboration again it will actually kill you. You will actually physically die.
16. Final grades are posted.
You look at your grades through your fingers terrified at what the screen might say. You can't fail. You have never been happier to see a grade this low in your life. You can now officially say that you survived organic chemistry!
