The Strategic Scientific Denial

Engineering students just got murdered by their own university. The tweet essentially says "avoid contact with romantic partners... unless you're an engineering student because, well, we all know you don't have any." The casual brutality with which the University of Alberta acknowledges the stereotypical social desert of engineering student life is both savage and statistically accurate. The data doesn't lie—those differential equations aren't the only things going unsolved in their lives.

The peak of mathematical humor right here! The top image shows a foggy road and the mathematical notation f(g(x)) - literally "fog of x" or function g inside function f. When asked to spot the difference, the response is spot on - they ARE the same picture! It's a brilliant composition equation where fog = f(g(x)). This is the kind of nerdy wordplay that makes mathematicians snort coffee through their noses during calculus lectures. Once you see it, you can never unsee it. Function composition has never been this hilarious!

Oh look, it's Einstein's famous equation getting a modern upgrade! First we have the classic E = mc², which revolutionized physics by establishing mass-energy equivalence. But wait—someone's pointing out the glaring omission! In 2023, no equation is complete without slapping "AI" onto it. Because obviously, the most groundbreaking scientific discovery of our time needs a buzzword to stay relevant in grant applications. Next week: E = mc² + AI + blockchain + quantum computing. That's how you secure funding these days, kids.

Mathematicians having existential crises since 300 BCE! The question "what is a number?" seems simple until you dive into the rabbit hole of mathematical philosophy. Is it a concept? A symbol? A property? The empty set (∅) is literally defined as "the set containing nothing" yet somehow forms the foundation of all numbers in set theory. Zero was controversial for centuries, and don't even get me started on imaginary numbers. Next time someone asks you to count to 10, just stare into the void and question reality instead.

The duality of mathematicians is real! Top panel: losing your mind over having to use Newton's method to find an intersection point of two basic functions. Bottom panel: waxing poetic about the elegant beauty of a Gaussian integral that gives you √π. Nothing captures the mathematician's experience quite like sobbing over numerical approximations one minute, then having spiritual awakenings over elegant solutions the next. We're either drowning in tears or basking in the divine glow of mathematical perfection—there is no in-between!

The classic train wreck of academic requirements! You're zooming along the tracks toward your biomedical dreams when—WHAM!—philosophy derails everything with questions like "What even IS medicine?" and "Can we truly know if cells exist?" Meanwhile, your GPA is sprawled on the ground wondering what Socrates has to do with protein synthesis. The university curriculum designers must've been cackling in their ivory towers when they decided existential crises should be prerequisites for understanding the endocrine system!