The Interdisciplinary Engineer's Existential Crisis

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The Interdisciplinary Engineer's Existential Crisis

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The eternal dilemma of the interdisciplinary engineer! Faced with the binary choice between "Electrical" and "Mechanical" flairs, our poor soul is having a full-blown identity crisis. This is what happens when you spend years mastering multiple disciplines only to be forced into a single box by Reddit's categorization system. It's like asking Marie Curie to choose between physics and chemistry, or telling Leonardo da Vinci to pick just ONE thing he's good at. The modern engineer's brain is wired to reject such simplistic classifications—their "electro-mechanical ass" demands recognition for the beautiful hybrid monstrosity they've become after those 4+ years of academic torture and countless energy drinks.

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