Example Code Is Royalty

Engineering mathematics textbooks are the stuff of nightmares even for math majors. The sheer terror of finding one in your room that isn't even yours is enough to make anyone break down in tears. It's like discovering someone planted evidence at a crime scene—except the crime is differential equations that would make Einstein reach for the aspirin. Pure mathematicians secretly fear applied math more than they'll ever admit!

The God of Thunder meets electrical engineering. Each component's symbol perfectly matches Thor's hammer transformations - resistors oppose current flow (stubborn like Thor), inductors store energy in magnetic fields (worthy of Mjolnir's power), capacitors store electrical charge (like Thor bottling lightning), and transistors control current flow between terminals (the most complex hammer, for when Thor needs precision). Circuit designers silently appreciate this while soldering at 2AM, running on nothing but cold coffee and the warm glow of their oscilloscope.

The crushing realization that those fancy differential equations don't translate to fancy bank accounts! Parents and society sell engineering as the golden ticket to wealth, but the reality hits harder than a thermodynamic crash. The left panel shows the classic parental ultimatum—doctor or engineer—because apparently artistic careers are just elaborate ways to starve creatively. Meanwhile, the right panel captures that soul-crushing moment when you realize your engineering degree mainly qualifies you to understand exactly how everything around you works while barely affording any of it. The salary-to-student-debt ratio is basically the world's most depressing mathematical function.

Engineers spent decades perfecting the aerodynamic football (Cd = 0.85), only to be humiliated by the computational fluid dynamics of a cow (Cd = 0.5). That's right—a literal farm animal is more aerodynamic than the object specifically designed to fly through air. Next time your quarterback makes a bad throw, remind them they'd have better luck hurling livestock. The drag coefficient doesn't lie, people. This is why I never trust sports equipment over barnyard animals when designing my next supersonic vehicle.

That's not a rant. That's a TED talk. The sender prepared a comprehensive 1 hour, 52 minute, and 33 second voice message detailing their grievances against civil engineers. Probably started with ancient Roman aqueducts and worked their way up to that one pothole they hit every morning. Civil engineers design our infrastructure but can't seem to design a way to escape being everyone's favorite scapegoat when the traffic light takes too long.

That smug face when your 15-term engineering nightmare starts simplifying itself! Engineering students know that special moment of pure dopamine release when those horrifying heat transfer equations suddenly start cancelling out. You've been staring at your paper for 45 minutes, questioning your life choices, when suddenly terms start vanishing like they're being perfectly balanced by Thanos. It's basically mathematical foreplay for engineers—the only time they'll smile during finals week.