The Five Stages Of CAD Grief

The perfect intersection of computer science and doodling during class! This crude sketch shows the inner workings of a computer with the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) and CPU labeled as stick figures surrounded by binary numbers (1, 0, 1) and a random "500" thrown in. The caption "i guess we doin bullshit now" perfectly captures that moment when your brain checks out during technical lectures and decides artistic expression is the only escape. It's basically what happens when your processor decides to run the "daydream.exe" program instead of paying attention to buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

The brutal honesty of thermodynamics in one perfect cartoon! This meme brilliantly illustrates the second law of thermodynamics in action through a diesel engine. While some energy actually does useful work (the tiny mouse getting the good stuff), the majority gets wasted as heat, noise, and vibration (the big chunky guy hogging most of the energy). Engineers call these "parasitic losses" because they're basically energy vampires stealing power that could be moving your car forward. Even the most efficient diesel engines only convert about 40% of fuel energy into actual work - the rest just becomes your engine's mixtape of rumbles and heat.

The engineering hierarchy in its natural habitat! This meme brilliantly captures the interdisciplinary shade-throwing between engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineers see themselves as Greek gods chiseled from marble, while viewing electrical engineers as nerdy bow-tie enthusiasts and software "engineers" as literally just thumbs on a keyboard. Meanwhile, electrical engineers perceive themselves as superhuman speedsters, mechanical engineers as cartoon monkeys with wrenches, and software folks as actual clowns. The quotation marks around "Engineers" for software developers is the chef's kiss of professional gatekeeping. Nothing says "real science" like disciplinary tribalism!

The classic battle between theory and practicality on full display! The architect meticulously arranges each nail in a delicate balancing act, treating it like a precise architectural challenge that requires elegant form. Meanwhile, the engineer just grabs a hammer and NAILS the solution (pun absolutely intended) by bundling them together with one nail through the middle. This perfectly captures the engineering mindset: "Why complicate things when a simple, effective solution exists?" The architect is playing 4D chess while the engineer is playing "let's get this done before lunch." Both approaches have their place, but sometimes the fastest path between two points is just smashing through the middle!

Nuclear energy gets the glamorous cartoon hero treatment while conventional steam power is the villain? Classic energy propaganda at its finest! The irony is delicious - nuclear plants are literally just fancy steam machines with extra spicy uranium. Both technologies boil water to spin turbines, but one involves splitting atoms and creating waste that stays radioactive for thousands of years. Sure, nuclear's "clean" until something goes wrong, then it's just clean in the "we had to evacuate an entire region" kind of way. Meanwhile, fossil fuel plants are portrayed as the mustache-twirling bad guys despite powering civilization for centuries. Energy debates never change - same physics, different marketing department.

Nothing says "I've made terrible life choices" quite like staring at a Moody diagram for three hours straight. The logarithmic scales, the overlapping friction factor lines, the tiny numbers that require electron microscopy to read... Engineering students develop a special kind of eye strain that ophthalmologists can identify on sight. "Ah, fluid mechanics trauma. Take two aspirin and never look at Reynolds numbers again." For the uninitiated, a Moody diagram helps engineers calculate friction in pipe flow, which sounds straightforward until you're squinting at intersection points between curves that might as well be quantum superpositions. The Hulk's confusion is the perfect embodiment of every student who thought engineering would be about building cool stuff rather than developing migraines from indecipherable charts.