The thread for flipping shits (and tables)

Right so in organic chemistry we have this project worth like half our lab grade or whatever, it's the big thing-- it's an independent chemical synthesis, we have a project mentor but it's otherwise independent. I happen to have the double misfortune of choosing a project run by a new professor, and a project that said new professor has never actually done before. Or uh, anyone has done, literally the only literature on the topic is the first step. Said first step requires multiple days of attention and is long and arduous and dull (it's got a three-hour stir, then you purify it a bit and add some more things and run it on a twenty-four hour stir and then purify it again, so you have to come in overnight). I had hoped after last week it'd be over with but nope, turns out I have to redo all that work.

And this is all for no adequately explained reason, too, because we're using our step one product for running the step two procedure as well, so clearly it's not a case of it not being viable so much as an idiotic professor's whim. I have to do two lab steps in one week and spend a fucking ridiculous amount of time juggling lab-work, not to mention studying for the other bullshit I have to take care of because hey, I have two other labs that require my attention and another four lectures and I cannot spend all of my time doing asinine bullshit for the synthesis you don't even fucking know will work.

The only consolation I have is that everyone else is probably stuck doing the same thing as me.