New Euler's Constant Just Dropped

Nothing captures physics education quite like turning living creatures into geometric shapes for the sake of math. "Assume the cat is cubical" sits right alongside classics like "frictionless surfaces" and "spherical cows in a vacuum." Because apparently, real-world complexity is just too much hassle when you're trying to teach fundamental principles. Next week: calculating the aerodynamics of a cat by assuming it's a perfect sphere with uniform density. The cat's angry face in the meme suggests it has strong opinions about being reduced to a simple cube. Can't blame it—I'd be upset too if someone ignored my non-Euclidean properties.

The engineering student's journey through mathematical hell is brutally captured in three acts. Starting with a wistful "Dear dairy..." at sunrise, followed by late-night studying with "I miss the time..." (and energy drinks, naturally), culminating in the mathematical nightmare below. Those equations aren't just complex—they're existential crisis material! The progression from hopeful journaling to "when maths didn't look like it just came outta my asshole" perfectly encapsulates the descent from optimism to mathematical trauma. The paper covered in physics equations and that yellow mechanical pencil might as well be torture devices. Engineering students don't solve problems—they survive them.

Ever tried deciphering mathematical function terminology? It's like learning an alien language where "injective" means "one-to-one" but then "surjective" isn't "one-to-many" because THAT would make too much sense! 🧠💥 Instead, we get this linguistic obstacle course where mathematicians decided "bijective" means BOTH properties combined. The bottom half shows these poor stick figures physically demonstrating what each mapping does - because apparently nothing says "clear explanation" like watching stick figures perform mathematical interpretive dance! This is why mathematicians shouldn't be allowed to name things without supervision.

The professor hands over what looks like a simple assignment, but then BAM—it's the continuity equation for charge conservation: ∇·J = -∂ρ/∂t. That face in the middle panels says it all! This equation basically states that electric charge can't be created or destroyed (only moved around), but trying to solve problems with it feels like trying to explain quantum mechanics to your cat. The student's progression from confidence to existential crisis is the physics equivalent of ordering "just a light salad" and receiving a 17-course molecular gastronomy experiment. Every electrodynamics student has had this exact moment when Maxwell's equations stop being theoretical and start getting personal.

The numerical identity crisis is real! Base 10 (decimal) is where both mathematicians and computer scientists feel at home - just normal humans doing normal math things. But watch what happens when we switch systems! Base 2 (binary) reveals the true divide: mathematicians are having an existential breakdown with all those 1s and 0s, while computer scientists are smugly comfortable - it's literally their native language. Then comes Base 16 (hexadecimal) where mathematicians descend into complete numerical horror at dealing with letters as numbers, while computer scientists just put on their cool glasses and get to work. Nothing says "I understand memory addresses" like casually throwing around values like 0xDEADBEEF without breaking a sweat.

When mathematicians see someone write "e = 8" on an MIT entrance exam from 1869, they collectively lose their minds! The meme shows historical figures (including what appears to be Euler himself) trying to restrain someone who's witnessing this mathematical blasphemy. It's like catching someone claiming the Earth is flat at a NASA conference! The joke references how mathematicians get irrationally upset (pun intended) about approximations. While engineers might round π to 3 for practical calculations, seeing the mathematical constant e (approximately 2.71828) defined as 8 would make any mathematician need therapy. The title "π=3 Is So 21st Century" suggests we've moved beyond that old mathematical sin to commit even more outrageous ones!