The Thing I Love About Being An Engineer Is...

Physics and engineering students looking at someone calling scientific calculator functions "useless"? *nervous laughter intensifies* 🧪 Those circled buttons (sin, cos, tan, log) are the bread and butter of anyone who's ever had to calculate the trajectory of a projectile at 2AM while questioning their life choices! Without them, we'd still be drawing triangles in the sand like cavemen with protractors! The real useless button is the one that turns the calculator on. Once you enter STEM, that thing never gets turned off. It becomes a permanent extension of your trembling, caffeine-fueled hand!

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.

The perfect irony of posting "Have you met engineers?" in a thread about intelligent people who can't communicate effectively. Engineers spend years mastering differential equations only to produce documentation that reads like it was written by a caffeinated toddler with a thesaurus. They'll design a bridge that can withstand category 5 hurricanes but can't explain to their mom what they actually do for work. The communication skills inversely proportional to technical brilliance phenomenon is practically Newton's forgotten law.

The most scientifically accurate depiction of electricity I've ever seen! A tiny purple dude getting absolutely YEETED through spaghetti while holding resistors, with another little guy chasing him with an LED. That 5V label is just *chef's kiss*. What they don't teach you in physics class: electrons are actually microscopic purple people desperately trying to escape pasta while carrying components. No wonder my circuits never work—the little guys are probably getting distracted by carbs!

The innocent high schooler's dream of designing cool planes crashes into the harsh reality wall built by engineering students! That moment when you realize those "fun math problems" about trains meeting each other were just the appetizer before they serve you differential equations with a side of thermodynamics. The poor kid's still thinking engineering is just "math and planes and shit" while actual engineering students are having existential breakdowns over their fourth all-nighter this week. It's like wanting to be an astronaut because space is pretty, then discovering you need to understand orbital mechanics first! The academic equivalent of "I came looking for copper and found pain."

Nothing kills the mood faster than pondering the biomechanical inefficiencies of evolution! While wheels ARE energy efficient for human-made machines, they'd be a disaster for living organisms. Imagine your wheeled leg getting a flat tire, or needing to evolve a biological axle that somehow connects to your body while spinning freely! Nature went with legs because they can handle rough terrain, self-repair, and don't need roads. But props to this physics-obsessed partner for turning bedtime into a biomechanics TED talk! The girlfriend's patient response is the real miracle of evolution here.