Not Everything Lives In The Cartesian Plane!

Oh the mathematical trauma! 😱 Calculus students get the cute simplified definition of continuity: "can you draw it without lifting your pencil?" Meanwhile, topology students are drowning in epsilon-delta neighborhoods and topological spaces! It's like explaining a sandwich as "bread with stuff" versus "a culinary construction consisting of various edible substrates arranged in vertical formation with protein and vegetation intermediaries." The topology student's tears are REAL—they've seen the mathematical abyss and it stares back with neighborhoods and open sets! Poor souls are forever changed by knowing what ACTUALLY lurks beneath those innocent-looking continuous functions!