Engineers Really Be Like That

Those aren't gang signs - they're circuit diagrams being drawn in mid-air. The Spider-Man on the left is clearly illustrating a voltage divider while the one on the right is responding with the universal hand gesture for "your impedance matching is flawed." This is just standard communication between electrical engineers who've run out of napkins to draw on. Nature's whiteboard.

The mind-boggling paradox of carbon fiber! It weighs a fraction of steel yet somehow manages to be stronger in one direction—like that overachieving friend who's amazing at exactly ONE thing. This is due to carbon fiber's anisotropic properties (fancy word for "picky about directions"). The long carbon strands are aligned in specific patterns, creating incredible strength along the fiber orientation but less impressive strength perpendicular to it. Meanwhile, steel just sits there being consistently strong in all directions like it's not even trying to be special. Materials science is wild!

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.

Ultimate power move: studying fluid mechanics while literally submerged in water! Talk about immersive learning! The person is taking "to defeat your enemy you must become your enemy" to a whole new level by physically surrounding themselves with the very fluid dynamics they're trying to master. Next-level dedication that would make Bernoulli and Reynolds proud. Honestly, this is just the logical conclusion of hands-on education—if you want to understand pressure gradients and laminar flow, might as well experience them firsthand with every cell in your body!

From Ohm's Law to ice cream cones! That Masters in Electrical Engineering sure comes in handy when scooping the perfect 31 flavors! This is the STEM career trajectory nobody warns you about during those all-nighters in the engineering lab. Spent years calculating impedance and designing circuits only to end up calculating how many sprinkles fit on a waffle cone. The job market really has a way of short-circuiting our dreams! But hey, at least he's not working at Radio Shack—oh wait, they don't exist anymore either.

Nothing validates your experimental design quite like putting yourself in the line of fire. This gentleman's approach to testing his "death ray" is the perfect embodiment of the scientific method's forgotten step: "If all else fails, become the test subject." Thirty years of teaching physics, and I've never seen such commitment to empirical evidence. The poor fellow's confusion about why he isn't dead yet is basically every grad student's reaction when their supposedly groundbreaking experiment fails spectacularly. Remember kids, if your doomsday device doesn't work, don't troubleshoot—just stand in it longer!