1. When you get too excited about that one concept you understand in your lab report ...
2. When someone tries to impress you with a random scientific fact that you already know, and you cut them off …
3. When you pass Gen Bio and consider yourself an expert in the field …
4. When you finally figure out a complicated problem by some roundabout method and try to explain your 12-page scratchwork to someone …
5. When you learn something actually cool and dangerous that you can do now that you have taken chemistry lab …
6. When you’re bitter because you think you figured out something new and interesting only to realize you’re wrong when you try to explain it out loud to someone …
7. When you finally crack because people are distracting you while you’re trying to study …
8. When you spontaneously burst into tears while staring at your lab report and nobody understands what exactly is making you upset …
9. When you get overly excited about pointless reactions you learn how to do …
10. When you laugh a little too hard at a science joke because you get it …
11. When you get sassy and use big words to hide the fact that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about ...
12. When you have a proud parent moment because a non-science major friend or relative is impressed by some random scientific fact …
13. When you daydream about (or secretly act out) a lab accident that leaves you with insanely cool super powers ...
14. When you have to try to stay calm while listening to someone make scientific claims that you know for a fact are wrong …
15. … Or aggressively cutting someone off and verbally overwhelming them with an in-depth scientific explanation.
I think science majors are all a little emotionally unstable; it's just a matter of finding that one thing that pushes them over the edge.