The Irrational Pain Scale

Content Why people regret majoring in math • No idea what to do after graduation. • You thought you were good at math in high school... and assumed college would just be "more of the same."

Twitter demands we "normalize obesity" while mathematicians quietly normalize vectors in the corner. The bottom part shows the actual mathematical normalization process - dividing a vector by its magnitude to get a unit vector (||OBESITY||). It's the perfect intersection of social media hot takes and cold hard math. Next up: Twitter tries to integrate social justice while calculus professors actually integrate functions.

This is mathematical savagery at its finest! The first line tells someone to go play with their "square root of negative friend" - which is imaginary because you can't take the square root of a negative number in real mathematics! Then it gets even more brutal with formal set theory notation stating that the intersection of the person's friends and the commenters on the thread equals the empty set. Translation: none of the people commenting are your friends! The final mathematical burn uses limits to say that as comments approach infinity, the number of f***s given approaches zero. Pure mathematical destruction!

The popular myth that Einstein failed math is getting absolutely demolished here! Einstein was actually a mathematical prodigy who mastered calculus by age 15. The meme brilliantly ends with "try learning General Relativity" - which is basically saying "if you think Einstein was bad at math, try understanding the tensor calculus and differential geometry he used to describe spacetime curvature." That's like saying Usain Bolt was slow because he once tied his shoelaces wrong. General Relativity requires such advanced mathematical frameworks that most physics undergrads don't even touch it until graduate school. Einstein wasn't just good at math - he bent mathematics to his will to explain the universe!

The eternal math-physics paradox strikes again! You think you've escaped reality by diving into the abstract wonderland of mathematics, only to discover that college entrance exams are riddled with physics questions. It's like fleeing to a dessert island and finding out it's actually made of vegetables. Every math enthusiast knows that beautiful feeling of pure abstraction—no friction, no air resistance, no pesky real-world limitations. Just clean, elegant proofs and equations that behave exactly as they should. Then physics shows up uninvited with its "but actually" attitude and ruins the perfect mathematical party.

Starting the matrix algebra indoctrination before they can even focus their eyes! While most parents are showing their newborns lullaby videos, this mathematical mastermind is programming their child with Gaussian Elimination—the method for solving systems of linear equations by transforming them into row echelon form. Nothing says "I want you to become an engineer" quite like substituting Sesame Street with linear algebra. The baby might not understand it now, but in 18 years they'll thank their parent when they're breezing through differential equations while their classmates are having existential crises!