I have some giant specific rants on this lol

I'm sure your presence is appreciated!

Hell yeah!

I hope others see this and think "how do I create opportunities" because I feel what you say so much! Trying to do a thing and having to say no to people because you are full *sucks*.

Rumors say Seaborg also took a hit of phosgene before his deadlift. Never was partial to ammonium carbonate.

I had an argument about a faculty member about why do we need to do so many recryst in undergrad because his lab never did them. As a hypervalent iodine person that was so funny, literally recrystallized everything always.

5k farts into the couch let’s goooo

No, I don't want no streaks. A streak is a spot that can't get no RF from me. Hanging out on the OH groups of the silica gel, trying to not H-bond.

Where is inorganic memes for c2v teens when you need them!!

If you haven’t worked for a university, you might not know that one of the primary ways universities manage sexually violent faculty is promoting them away from students and into power.

It isn’t a coincidence. It’s the system working as designed.

Yeah I don't like to BS on these and always worry that I'm doing my students a disservice by being upfront they are average. Of course I do have the occasional exceptional student but the evidence of that goes beyond me ticking boxes.

So while the reference letter economy piss me off, I still do my freaking job *glares at people who say no due in these conditions* and fill the form because I don't want my students to suffer from a system they did not build. (3/3)

I tell them upfront what I will write (I have boilerplate text) and that it's not a high quality letter, instead that they should seek someone who knows them better. But many of these students never take a sub-200 students class. Writing letters for former TAs/coop students is much easier. (2/3)

I teach a 500+ people lab for a lot of professional school hopefuls and also run outreach that uses a pool of 100+ volunteers yearly. So I get asked for a LOT of reference letters for students I just know basic info. (1/3)

Me as a grocery store employee giving milk samples: "that's right, soyboys! Recall the fresh taste of mammary secretions!"