The Great Academic Shrinkage

Student celebrates surviving calculus only to discover thermodynamics and fluid mechanics are waiting to crush their soul. Classic engineering curriculum trap. You think you've conquered the final boss, but it was just the tutorial level. Thermodynamics doesn't just break your spirit—it conserves that broken spirit and transfers it directly into anxiety. And fluid mechanics? That's just calculus wearing a trench coat filled with partial differential equations and boundary conditions.

The classic academic triple threat. Physicists love to position themselves as the perfect middle ground - using just enough math to sound legitimate but staying practical enough to claim engineering relevance. Meanwhile, mathematicians are still proving a triangle is actually a triangle, and engineers are building bridges with duct tape and optimism. It's the scientific equivalent of dating two people who hate each other and somehow convincing both you're on their side.

Behold! The perfect example of physics problem simplification in its natural habitat! Physicists don't have time for complex bunny shapes with all those pesky ears and fluffy tails. Need to calculate the gravitational force on a rabbit? BOOM! Spherical bunny. Need to model its movement? BOOM! Frictionless spherical bunny in a vacuum! This little fluffball is just sitting there, blissfully unaware it's being transformed into a perfect sphere in thousands of freshman physics problems across the universe. The ultimate triumph of theoretical over practical!

Even Einstein, with his revolutionary theories on relativity, apparently followed the same mathematical process as the rest of us mortals. The universal mathematical workflow: meticulously write down the problem, then proceed directly to emotional breakdown. No intermediate steps required. The efficiency is undeniable. I've personally tested this method through three degrees and can confirm its reproducibility across all mathematical disciplines.

Nothing sends a physicist into existential crisis faster than the mathematical blasphemy of "π = 3 = e." It's like watching someone pour milk before cereal—fundamentally wrong on every level. The constants π (3.14159...) and e (2.71828...) are sacred, immutable pillars of mathematics, and equating them to each other—let alone to the integer 3—is the mathematical equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. No wonder the poor physicist labeled it harassment! Thirty years of differential equations and complex analysis reduced to rubble by three little characters. Engineers might round π to 3 "for simplicity," but this tweet is pure mathematical terrorism.

Engineers making 5 = 5 with the most unnecessarily complex equation possible? Yep, that tracks! 😂 The Springfield Department of Engineering is showing us the REAL engineering mindset - why solve something simply when you can make it ridiculously complicated? That equation is the engineering equivalent of using a rocket launcher to open a jar of pickles! Every engineering student knows this pain. You spend four years learning calculus, differential equations, and thermodynamics just to end up approximating π as 3 and saying "eh, close enough" in the real world. Engineering: where we make simple things complicated and complicated things "good enough for government work"!