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The Physics Career Skatepark
Physics Academia Tech Science
11 days ago 3.7K views 0 shares
The Physics Career Skatepark
The career trajectory of physics students depicted as a skateboarding park is painfully accurate. Start as an ambitious Indian student, pursue physics with youthful optimism, finish your Masters while still clinging to academic dreams, then watch as gravity and reality hit. That Theory PhD? Just another trick before you inevitably slide into becoming a Software Engineer—where all physicists apparently go to die. The universal conservation law of career paths: enthusiasm transforms into resignation with minimal energy loss. The rake-to-face transformation is just *chef's kiss* perfect symbolism for what the job market does to your theoretical aspirations.

Unemployed With A Superiority Complex
Math Physics Academia Science
11 days ago 4.0K views 0 shares
Unemployed With A Superiority Complex
The path to unemployment has never been so theoretically elegant! Physics majors think they're solving the universe while math majors are proving theorems nobody asked for—both tunneling straight into joblessness with remarkable precision. Meanwhile, the cow represents biology majors who actually found jobs because they studied something practical. The real superiority complex? Thinking your ability to calculate in 11 dimensions will impress an HR manager who just wants someone who can use Excel without crashing the system.

The Academic Fork In The Road
Biology Math Science Academia
1 month ago 8.4K views 0 shares
The Academic Fork In The Road
Standing at life's academic crossroads, our protagonist faces the eternal dilemma: the sunny castle of Biology with its messy, chaotic wonders, or the dark, lightning-struck fortress of Mathematics with its rigid certainties. Let's be honest – most of us flee from differential equations faster than bacteria develop antibiotic resistance. Biology offers the comfort of memorizing weird Latin names instead of proving why some Greek letter equals another Greek letter to the power of "dear god why." Sure, you'll dissect formaldehyde-soaked creatures, but at least you won't have to integrate functions while crying into your fourth coffee at 2 AM.

The Theoretical Career Path
Math Physics Academia Science
1 month ago 8.8K views 0 shares
The Theoretical Career Path
The academic pipeline illustrated with brutal efficiency. Physics and math majors split from the same educational trunk, only to converge at "unemployed with a superiority complex." Meanwhile, a cow observes the whole situation, representing the rest of us who chose practical degrees and are now happily employed. Nothing says "I understand the fundamental laws of the universe but not how to monetize that knowledge" quite like this diagram. Ten years of studying quantum mechanics just to explain to your parents why you're still living in their basement.