Disagree. I think calling this exchange “pretty insightful” is self-congratulatory, and the supposed insight speculative and conclusory. Generational reduction

Disagree. I think calling this exchange “pretty insightful” is self-congratulatory, and the supposed insight speculative and conclusory. Generational reductionism aside, one has only to browse a few online forums dedicated to pre-med studies to note that organic chemistry continues to maintain its reputation as a “weed-out course” in practice and in reputation. It doesn’t strike me, based on their own words, that the current generation of students have any misapprehensions about the difficulty of the subject matter. The link between feelings of entitlement to basic social decency (which isn’t particular to any generation) and entitlement to academic success also wasn’t substantiated beyond the nominal misapplication of the words “explosion effect,” which isn’t a rigorous term appropriately derived from any science or art with which I’m familiar. Care to explain? I followed the benefit of the doubt through a few biological, psychological, sociological, and historical searches and found nothing that would apply to your conversation; unless you meant to reference quite literal chemical and physical explosions, which doesn’t follow in that context either.