Patent Applications Be Like

That moment in electrical engineering class when you realize Kirchhoff has a monopoly on circuit laws. Current law? Kirchhoff. Voltage law? Also Kirchhoff. It's like discovering your professor has been teaching under different aliases all semester. No wonder electrical engineers have trust issues - one guy wrote half the curriculum and then disappeared into the void of history. The astronaut's realization is basically every EE student's existential crisis in space suit form.

The ultimate physics irony! Fighter pilots breaking the sound barrier create that earth-shaking sonic boom everyone else gets to enjoy—except themselves. Since they're traveling faster than sound waves, the boom trails behind them like an acoustic shadow they can never catch. It's the aeronautical equivalent of throwing an epic party but having to leave before it starts. The Doppler effect's cruel joke: creating the coolest sound in aviation that the creators themselves will never hear. Talk about performance anxiety without the performance review!

The forgotten middle child of the metric system strikes again! This meme brilliantly captures how the decimeter (dm) gets completely ignored while millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers get all the glory. Poor little dm is relegated to the sad cat in the corner, desperately seeking attention like that one unit you vaguely remember from 5th grade science class but never actually used in real life. The metric system is supposed to be perfectly logical with its powers of 10, but somehow we collectively decided that measuring things as 0.1 meters or 10 cm was better than saying 1 dm. It's the mathematical equivalent of being left on read.

The NASA mission to your passing grade has been aborted! Nothing sends your academic career into a black hole faster than mixing up meters and feet on a physics exam. Just ask the engineers behind the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter - a $125 million spacecraft that disintegrated because someone couldn't decide between imperial and metric. Your professor isn't crying about your forgotten unit conversion... they're laughing in aerospace engineer.

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 eternal RLC circuit paradox! Spent countless hours memorizing these formulas for exams only to have them vanish from my brain faster than electrons through a superconductor! 🧠⚡ Those transfer functions and damping factors? Might as well be ancient hieroglyphics now! The only circuit I troubleshoot these days is figuring out which coffee maker button makes the strongest brew. And impedance? The only Z I care about happens when I'm face-down on my keyboard!