Last Week Tonight is still on break, but host John Oliver wanted to make sure he prepared students for the upcoming academic year. In a web exclusive video, Oliver warns that chemistry is going to be really disappointing, since you "probably won't even learn how to cook meth, and really, that's all anyone is in it for," and shares that both Romeo and Juliet die in the end of the famous play, but you "actually don't feel that bad about it." Oliver saves most of his disdain for math, telling students that all you really need to know when you grow up is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division: "I'm an adult with a job and I can't remember if a logarithm is some kind of exponent, Kenny Loggins' first album, or a method of lumberjack birth control. Just ignore it." Catherine Garcia
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