Academic reality check Memes

The mathematical hierarchy of pain, illustrated perfectly. High school math champions get obliterated by undergraduate Analysis, only to watch that same Analysis become the puny sidekick to the eldritch horror known as Measure Theory. Nothing humbles a mathematics student quite like discovering there are seven levels of mathematical hell beyond what broke your spirit last semester. The progression from "I'm so smart" to "I understand nothing" is basically the universal mathematical experience.