The GPA Paradox: STEM Edition

Your computer's transistors are the unsung bodybuilders of the digital world—beefy little switches handling electricity with MUSCLES! But then... *WHAM!* A cosmic ray zooms in from outer space, smacks into one, and suddenly your pristine calculation becomes digital mush! One subatomic particle traveling at near-light speed can flip a bit from 0 to 1, causing anything from a tiny glitch to the dreaded blue screen of death. It's like getting punched by the universe! Next time your computer crashes for "no reason," just remember it might have taken a cosmic uppercut. 🥊☄️

When romance meets signal processing! This engineering genius took "reading between the lines" to a whole new level. Instead of just getting confused by her mixed signals, he broke them down into their frequency components with a Fourier transform. Because nothing says "I understand you" like decomposing complex waveforms into simple sinusoids. Next time someone's giving you confusing vibes, just whip out an oscilloscope and a multimeter—relationship problems solved through mathematics!

The correct answer is B, unless you're a student desperately taking a fluid dynamics exam, in which case it's definitely C. Or maybe A? The Bernoulli principle states that as fluid velocity increases, pressure decreases. But what's really under pressure here is every engineering student staring at this question at 11:58pm when the online assignment is due at midnight. The narrowest point has the highest velocity and lowest pressure, but the real pressure peak is in your professor's sadistic smile when they designed this "simple" question.

Engineers have officially rounded Euler's number (e ≈ 2.71828...) to 3! Mathematical purists are having collective heart attacks right now. The sacred transcendental constant that forms the basis of natural logarithms and exponential growth has been unceremoniously approximated to the nearest integer by someone who clearly prioritizes convenience over precision. Next up: π = 3 and the golden ratio = "eh, close enough to 1.5".

Gravity has entered the chat! 🌎 This meme brilliantly captures that moment when someone thinks they've solved climate change with a "just put the pollution in space" solution. If only physics worked that way! Even if we built a chimney tall enough (which would require materials that don't exist and would collapse under their own weight), gases don't just float away into space. Earth's gravitational pull would simply bring those pollutants right back down, spreading them across the atmosphere anyway. It's like trying to throw your trash "away" by tossing it up in the air and expecting it to never come down. Physics: 1, Oversimplified Solutions: 0.

The eternal struggle of engineering students captured in one image. Imperial units have students calmly solving a straightforward problem, while metric calculations drive them to existential despair and acrobatics. What's truly hilarious is that metric is objectively simpler—it's just that American education has conditioned students to fear SI units like they're some kind of dark magic. The contrast between the composed imperial solvers and the metric users hanging themselves with unit conversion anxiety is painfully relatable to anyone who's had to switch between systems mid-exam. The real punchline? Most scientific fields exclusively use metric, so these imperial-loving students are just postponing their inevitable breakdown. Nothing says "welcome to engineering" like sobbing over Pascal conversions at 3 AM.