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by Lu2025 275 days ago
> old lifeless dork professor at "elite" university mumbling some nonsense and throwing walls of formulas with zero context

"Oh, you have a PhD in Chemistry? I hated orgo in college..." I heard it often enough to suspect some kind of a collusion. But no, there is no collusion, just old crummy dudes gatekeeping knowledge to preserve their status, and the departments allowing them to do so.