It Is Never Too Late For The Good Ol' Drill

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.

The classic materials science panic moment! Student skips learning phase diagrams (because who needs those complicated temperature-composition charts, right?). Then BAM! The exam demands a eutectic phase diagram... and our desperate hero draws a cute little face inside the actual diagram! 😱 That adorable face with α+β in its belly is technically correct (it's in the right region!) but definitely not what the professor had in mind. The eutectic point (CE) is literally the face's nose! Talk about facing your academic fears head-on!

This is electrical engineering comedy gold! The resistor (that gold component) is literally recruiting followers with "JOIN THE RESISTANCE" while the crowd chants "OHMMMMM..." - a perfect pun on the unit of electrical resistance. It's basically a cult meeting for electrons who are tired of going with the flow. Current events in the physics world are getting spicy!

Flying was humanity's "impossible" dream until someone decided to just wing it! Daedalus, the OG engineer, built wings from wax and feathers to escape imprisonment—basically the ancient Greek version of a jailbreak with DIY hardware. The meme perfectly captures that desperate engineer energy we've all felt—when the deadline's tomorrow and you're thinking "these mechanical wings strapped to my arms are TOTALLY gonna work!" Sure, his son Icarus flew too close to the sun and crashed spectacularly (history's first documented beta testing failure), but hey—innovation requires risk-takers! Next time your experiment fails or your code won't compile, channel your inner Daedalus. Sometimes the most brilliant solutions come when we're backed into a corner with nothing but feathers, wax, and audacity!

Regular engineers: "Yeah, suspension makes sense." Engineers seeing tensegrity structures: "WHAT BLACK MAGIC IS THIS?!" Tensegrity is that mind-bending structural principle where components float in apparent defiance of physics, held together by a perfect balance of tension and compression. It's like watching a magician's trick except the magician is just... math. The bottom image shows the engineering equivalent of seeing a ghost—that moment when your brain short-circuits because something shouldn't work but absolutely does. First-year physics students think they've got gravity all figured out until this architectural sorcery enters the chat.

Classic hypocrisy in STEM fields. We mock engineers for using π = 3 while simultaneously treating spherical cows as legitimate scientific models. Nothing says "I'm a serious physicist" like reducing complex biological organisms to perfect yellow spheres that say "mooooo." Next time you're simplifying a problem, remember you're just one "assume a spherical cow" away from being exactly what you ridicule.