A discipline of chemistry which involved the study of the structure, reactions, compounds, et. al. of organisms and other organic compounds that contain carbon. Often refered to simply as "organic" or "o-chem." Considered by many to be the number one ass-raper on college campuses.
After that first organic chemistrytest Little Billy decided that a degree in chemistry wasn't worth it.
The literal definition of hell. Those who take it will begin to question their major and thus opt out for finance or engineering, which aren't bad choices. For the rest of those who continue, they will become broken by the time they do organic chemistry 2.
a right of passage for many undergraduate college students whom hope to one day be medical practitioners. This right of passage involves the prospective doctor bending over, dropping his or her pants, and allowing organicchemistry to have its way with their ass.
Student 1: Yeah, I've got to take organicchemistry next semester.
A college class that will make you insane in one of two ways:
1) You do not get the material, try to learn it by memorizing everything, and wind up feeling like you are running while tied to the back of a fast moving pickup truck. Your grades suck and you go crazy trying to improve them. Or you just give up and get depressed.
2) You figure out that organic chemistry must be learned like a language, and start to gain fluency in it. You understand pKa's, what nucleophiles are best, and all the fun stuff you can do with a C=O bond. Worse still, you probably enjoy it, and may even wish to include organic chemistry in your career. Thus, you are crazy.
1) Some innocent premed took organic chemistry just to fill a requirement. She barely survived and doesn't want to talk about it. However, she's now a perfectly normal nurse.
2) A woman I knew was an English major until she took organic chemistry. She liked it and turned renegade, and went to get her PhD in organic. By the time I met her, four years into grad school, she was my ochem lab TA and could play Grace from Avatar without makeup. She now teaches organic chemistry at a community college near you...Beware!