Types Of People In The Lab

Engineering education: where reality is optional and math is negotiable! This alignment chart brilliantly categorizes the lies we tell ourselves to make calculations easier. From the classic "no air resistance" (because wind is just a social construct) to the mathematical blasphemy of "π=3" (mathematicians are screaming somewhere). The small approximation sin(x)≈x is practically a gateway drug to the dark arts of engineering. And let's not forget the student's prayer: "The pop quiz probably isn't today" – the most chaotic evil assumption that has destroyed countless GPAs. My personal favorite? "The professor must have made a mistake." The rallying cry of every student who got different answers than their classmates but is too stubborn to admit they're wrong. Engineering: where we build bridges on assumptions and hope for the best!

Normal people just know 7+6=13. Math nerds? We need to construct an elaborate proof involving comparative arithmetic and transitive properties. It's like using a nuclear submarine to cross a puddle. The beautiful agony of the mathematical mind is that we can't just accept facts—we must torture them with logic until they confess their theoretical underpinnings. Next time someone asks you what time it is, try explaining the relativistic implications of spacetime curvature instead of just checking your watch.

The textbook definition of the scientific method: observe, hypothesize, experiment, analyze, conclude. The actual scientific method: chaotic experimentation until something interesting happens! Every breakthrough discovery in history started with someone thinking "what if I just try this random thing?" Newton didn't plan to revolutionize physics—he was just vibing under an apple tree. Fleming discovered penicillin because he was too lazy to clean his petri dishes. Behind every polished journal publication is a scientist who spent months frantically mixing chemicals and muttering "why isn't this working?!" before stumbling onto something brilliant by accident. It's basically organized chaos with better documentation.

When your calculus homework gets interrupted by breaking news that L'Hôpital's rule has returned to the U.S. like some mathematical celebrity on tour! The pop-up notification has perfect timing—right as you're struggling with an indeterminate form limit problem that L'Hôpital's rule would solve elegantly. The mathematical equivalent of your favorite tool being discontinued, then dramatically reintroduced with fanfare. Calculus students everywhere frantically canceling their "How to solve limits without L'Hôpital" tutoring sessions. For the uninitiated: L'Hôpital's rule transforms those nasty 0/0 or ∞/∞ limit problems into something manageable by taking derivatives of numerator and denominator. It's basically the "press this button to make math easier" shortcut that saves countless students from limit-induced breakdowns.

The cosmic revenge saga we never knew we needed! Proclaiming Pluto as your favorite planet to an astrophysicist is like telling a chef you prefer microwave dinners. Poor Pluto got demoted from planet status in 2006, and some scientists are still fighting that celestial injustice. The bottom panel shows the inevitable scientific smackdown - Naruto-style - that follows such blasphemy. The scientific community might use peer-reviewed papers as weapons, but in this alternate universe, they apparently prefer glowing chakra attacks. Remember kids, planetary classification is serious business... and apparently worth throwing hands over!

The peak of mathematical rigor in 2023: Googling whether Graham's number is prime and taking the first result as gospel. For those unaware, Graham's number is so incomprehensibly large that if you tried to write it out in standard notation, the number of digits wouldn't fit in the observable universe. Yet somehow Google confidently declares it prime in 0.35 seconds. Mathematicians who've spent decades proving primality for much smaller numbers are clearly wasting their time. Next research paper: "Prime factorization solved with this one weird trick. Peer reviewers hate it!"