Taking Graduation Into My Own Hands

Physics students rejecting CBD (cannabidiol) but swooning over FBD (free body diagrams). The natural state of a physics student is to ignore recreational substances and instead experience euphoria when calculating forces on a rigid body. Nothing quite like the high of decomposing vectors and solving for equilibrium conditions. Some of us still have nightmares about forgetting to include friction in our calculations.

The engineering gender ratio has achieved its final form! This meme brilliantly captures the progressive stages of brain expansion as we descend deeper into the engineering vortex. Starting with normal social awkwardness (never been kissed), we quickly escalate to complete social isolation, until we reach the ultimate transcendence of aerospace engineering—where one's consciousness expands beyond the need for human interaction entirely! The gender imbalance in engineering fields isn't just a stereotype—it's practically a law of thermodynamics at this point. Aerospace engineers have ascended so far beyond normal social constructs they're basically designing rockets in the 5th dimension while the rest of us are still trying to figure out how to say "hello" to another human being!

The eternal battle of Pi approximation across disciplines! Programmers smugly import it as a library constant, mathematicians flex with their continued fraction formulas that could stretch to infinity, and engineers? They're just like Patrick Star - "THREE. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT." Because when you're building a bridge, those extra decimal places are just showing off. The mathematician's formula is actually a beautiful continued fraction representation of π that converges to the true value, but the engineer knows that deadlines wait for no decimal point. In the real world, significant figures have feelings too!

Dating as an engineer hits different! When she's giving confusing signals, most people might talk it out or get advice from friends. But this legend? Busts out the oscilloscope and runs a Fourier analysis to decompose her complex emotional waveform into its fundamental frequency components. Because nothing says "I understand women" like treating human communication as a signal processing problem! Next step: plotting her text response times on a Bode plot to analyze phase margin.

Behold the absurdity of imperial units! The English system uses "slug" as a unit of mass while the SI system sensibly uses kilograms. The joke is brilliantly illustrated with an actual slug (the gastropod) circled in red—because apparently measuring mass with garden creatures makes PERFECT scientific sense! 🤪 For the uninitiated lab rats among us: a slug is actually 32.2 pounds-mass or about 14.6 kg. It's the amount of mass that accelerates at 1 ft/s² when a force of 1 pound is applied. Why use something logical when you can measure with mollusks instead? *maniacal scientist laughter*

Thermodynamics explained through adorable blobs getting progressively manhandled! The closed system sits there all smug and undisturbed. The controlled volume system gets poked but maintains its dignity. Then there's boundary work—essentially the thermodynamic equivalent of giving your system an uncomfortable squeeze. Finally, conservation of energy sits peacefully inside its box, blissfully unaware it's just the universe's way of saying "you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit the game." This is basically what happens when physicists try to make their field approachable but end up creating nightmare fuel for engineering students during finals week.