10. I will not care more about my students’ education than they do.
9. I’m fortunate because most people making my salary in the private sector don’t get an office.
8. If an experiment goes wrong and I lose a couple of fingers
, I can always become a theoretician.7. Students are adults, despite all evidence to the contrary.
6. Don’t touch.
5. According to the second law of thermodynamics
, we’re all doomed anyway so it doesn’t really matter if I finish grading those exams tonight.4. Although students can be as worthless as a broke dick, they are still human beings.
3. The intellectual mind runs on coffee but it needs to be flushed out with alcohol periodically. Often.
2. Chemistry is a great racket: We are paid to make things people want but make a mess. We are paid to clean up the mess. We are paid to make things people want but make a slightly less noxious mess. We get paid to clean up ... It’s the circle of life.
1. You call it the Dumbest Generation
. I call it job security.
