The Self-Citation Circle Of Trust

The mathematical equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot! First panel: panic at a difficult equation. Second panel: pure joy when all the complicated terms cancel out. Third panel: the horrifying realization you've eliminated the very variable you were trying to find. It's like spending hours searching for your glasses while wearing them, only to throw them away once you find them. The mathematical walk of shame every student knows too well.

The disappointment is palpable! This cat's wide-eyed reaction perfectly captures the moment when you realize quantum mechanics isn't as mystical as pop science makes it seem. The Schrödinger equation—named after the same guy with that famous cat thought experiment—turns out to be just another energy conservation formula. It's like expecting some mind-bending cosmic revelation and instead getting "E = mc²" but with extra steps. Physics majors everywhere are nodding in silent understanding while their non-physics friends still think they're doing magic.

The biochemistry exam flashbacks are REAL! This meme perfectly captures the trauma of being ambushed by metabolic pathway questions. The UN peacekeepers are literally holding students hostage until they regurgitate impossibly complex conversion pathways that even practicing biochemists would need to look up. Converting tryptophan to glucose? That's gluconeogenesis from an amino acid—a multi-step nightmare involving deamination, kynurenine pathway intermediates, and eventually pyruvate formation before even starting the actual glucose synthesis. No wonder the stick figure is having an existential crisis! And don't even mention cholesterol biosynthesis with its 30+ steps starting from acetyl-CoA. Biochemistry students worldwide just felt a collective shudder.

Ever notice how we all start grad school as enthusiastic Bruce Banners, only to end up as weeping green rage monsters? That transformation from "I'm going to revolutionize my field!" to "Please god let this experiment work just once" happens faster than gamma radiation alters DNA. By year three, you're crying into your fifth coffee while explaining to undergrads why they should absolutely choose a different career path. The academic Hulk-out is complete when you find yourself genuinely excited about free pizza at department seminars.

Welcome to the magical world of "ideal conditions" where bears bounce like super balls! 🐻 Every physics student knows that moment when teachers say "let's ignore friction, air resistance, and energy loss" and suddenly everything becomes a perfect mathematical wonderland. In reality? That bear would splat on the first landing. But in physics problem land? It's a perpetual motion paradise! This is basically the difference between the homework problems and the real world. No wonder engineering students have trust issues! 😂

The eternal lab practical hierarchy! Top panel shows Patrick in a lab coat, meticulously examining slides under a microscope—the picture of scientific professionalism. Bottom panel? CHAOS INCARNATE! Physics practical has turned into a demolition derby with tools scattered everywhere and Patrick looking like he's one wrong measurement away from discovering a new explosive compound instead of Ohm's Law! Every science student knows biology is just "identify this blob" while physics is "please explain why the universe exists using only this broken rubber band and a paperclip." The difference between labeling cells and calculating why your experimental values are 300% off from theoretical predictions!