Flawless Correlation

This flowchart is what happens when career counselors have a mental breakdown. Engineering? Only if you're "good with things." Chemistry? Congratulations on your future as a "fussy pedant." And let's not forget Computer Science, perfect for those who prefer "slow, indirect evil" over the more efficient varieties. The beautiful part is how it nails the existential crisis of every STEM student. "Why do you want to major in a STEM field?" Options include "curiosity" (adorable), "to save the planet" (delusional), or my personal favorite, the dawning realization that STEM was supposed to involve actual plants for Biology majors. After 30 years of teaching, I can confirm this is approximately 87% accurate. The missing 13% is the path where you choose your major based on which department has the least uncomfortable chairs in the lecture hall.

The mathematical constants π (pi) and e (Euler's number) showing up uninvited in equations like that one weird couple at every party. These irrational numbers have a supernatural ability to infiltrate formulas across physics, engineering, and pure mathematics when you least expect them. Just when you think you're solving a simple problem—BAM!—π appears in your electromagnetic equations or e crashes your differential calculus. The true "horsemen of WTF" in the mathematical apocalypse.

Left side: Hegel writing a whole dissertation on why math is "empty" and "mechanical" while literally crying. Right side: Chad physicist with the most elegant rebuttal in scientific history—"shut up and calculate." Pure gold! The physicist doesn't have time for philosophical hand-wringing when there's a universe to model with equations. While Hegel was busy declaring numbers "void of content," physicists were using those same numbers to predict cosmic phenomena and build modern civilization. The pragmatic brutality of this contrast is what makes quantum mechanics go brrrr.

Behold the human body! That magnificent biological contraption supposedly designed to lift weights and look good on Instagram, but NOPE! Instead, it's a chaotic meat vessel that transforms "F = ma" into seventeen variables with partial derivatives that would make Einstein weep. Your muscles aren't just moving weights—they're creating mathematical nightmares that would require supercomputers to model accurately. Next time someone asks why you're sweating after one flight of stairs, just mutter "coupled differential equations" and walk away dramatically.

The mathematical notation "0 ∉ N" simply means "zero is not an element of the set of natural numbers" - a fact that's sparked more academic fights than the department coffee budget. Mathematicians have been bickering about whether zero belongs in the natural numbers since before calculators were cool. Some textbooks include it, others don't, and somehow we've built modern civilization on this shaky foundation. The perfect metaphor for politics meeting mathematics - absolute certainty about things that are completely arbitrary.

That's not a shaky hand—that's a perfect visualization of the y = x 2 + sin(5x) function! When your math professor said "draw a parabola," you decided to add some personality with a trigonometric wiggle. It's like the mathematical equivalent of drawing outside the lines. The function is basically saying "I refuse to be confined by your quadratic expectations!" This is what happens when calculus has an identity crisis mid-graph.