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What I Learn From Group Projects
Engineering Academia
17 hours ago 2.8K views 0 shares
What I Learn From Group Projects
The universal truth of engineering education right here! This pie chart brilliantly breaks down the REAL curriculum of group projects. Notice how the tiniest sliver is actually learning to work with others—you know, the supposed point of the whole exercise! Meanwhile, half the chart is split between "doing everything yourself" and "developing a healthy hatred for your teammates." The tiny red slice for "actual information" is just *chef's kiss* perfect. Engineering students spend years mastering complex equations only to discover their most valuable skill is figuring out how to complete a six-person project while their teammates are mysteriously "busy" every single weekend!

The Ultimate Mathematical Betrayal
Math Engineering Academia
10 days ago 3.9K views 0 shares
The Ultimate Mathematical Betrayal
Engineering mathematics textbooks are the stuff of nightmares even for math majors. The sheer terror of finding one in your room that isn't even yours is enough to make anyone break down in tears. It's like discovering someone planted evidence at a crime scene—except the crime is differential equations that would make Einstein reach for the aspirin. Pure mathematicians secretly fear applied math more than they'll ever admit!

When Your Math Minor Wasn't Supposed To Be This Hard
Physics Math Academia Science
12 days ago 3.8K views 0 shares
When Your Math Minor Wasn't Supposed To Be This Hard
Physics majors looking at those equations: "The elegant dance of thermodynamics and ideal gas law! Beautiful!" Math minors seeing the same equations: "WHAT in the derivative-integrating nightmare is this?!" The irony? Those equations (PV=nRT and its variants) are considered the "easy stuff" in physics. Just wait until quantum mechanics shows up with operators that don't even commute. That's when even the physics majors join the "WHAT" side!

Engineering In A Nutshell: The Procrastination Equation
Engineering Academia
13 days ago 3.7K views 0 shares
Engineering In A Nutshell: The Procrastination Equation
Engineering students have mastered the art of academic procrastination to a scientific degree! The 5:1 ratio? That's just basic engineering efficiency! Why spend 5 hours studying when those same 5 hours could be spent building elaborate YouTube recommendation algorithms (in your head, of course). Then, with just 1 hour of panicked studying, you somehow pull off passing grades through what can only be described as thermodynamic miracle. It's not procrastination—it's optimizing your stress-to-productivity curve! Future employers will be impressed by this time management innovation... right?

The Mathematical Glow-Up
Math Physics Academia Science
21 days ago 5.1K views 0 shares
The Mathematical Glow-Up
The ultimate academic glow-up! In kindergarten, basic addition like "2+2" seems like rocket science while Greek symbols (ψ φ Σ Ω μ) might as well be alien hieroglyphics. Fast forward to college, and suddenly those intimidating Greek letters are your best friends while elementary math feels like a distant memory from another lifetime. The intellectual tables have turned! Your brain literally rewired itself from "I can count to 10!" to "Let me just quickly derive this differential equation using psi functions." Talk about a mathematical identity crisis!

The Four Stages Of Chemistry Comprehension
Chemistry Academia Science
2 months ago 9.1K views 0 shares
The Four Stages Of Chemistry Comprehension
The existential crisis of every chemistry student condensed into four panels. First three panels: frantically asking "WHY?" while staring at incomprehensible reaction mechanisms that seemingly defy all logic. Fourth panel: that brief moment of clarity when the electron finally decides to move where it's supposed to. After 3 hours of questioning your life choices, career path, and possibly the fundamental laws of the universe, suddenly everything makes sense... until the next problem set.

Gone Like The Wind
Academia Lab-life
2 months ago 4.9K views 0 shares
Gone Like The Wind
The mysterious disappearance of professors after dropping a 300-page reading list. They possess the uncanny ability to vanish into thin air while simultaneously convincing themselves they've completed their educational duties. Self-preservation through selective absence—a phenomenon not yet documented in any physics textbook, but universally observed in academic settings worldwide.

The Existential Divide Between Lab Coats And Berets
Academia Science Research
2 months ago 6.9K views 0 shares
The Existential Divide Between Lab Coats And Berets
That face when you've spent 36 hours straight synthesizing compounds that might cure cancer while your roommate concludes that existence is meaningless after reading one Nietzsche quote. Sure, the heat death of the universe is inevitable in billions of years, but I'd still like to finish my PhD before then, thanks.

The Great Math Escape Fantasy
Physics Engineering Math Academia
2 months ago 12.4K views 0 shares
The Great Math Escape Fantasy
The mathematical naivety is just... *exhales cigarette smoke*... painful. Engineering students thinking they're escaping math is like believing you can avoid water by jumping into the ocean. Differential equations, vector calculus, and numerical methods will find you. They always do. The difference? Physicists derive the equations, engineers just solve them... repeatedly... with boundary conditions from hell. Sweet summer children.

We Have That In Common
Math Academia
2 months ago 9.3K views 0 shares
We Have That In Common
The ultimate crossover nobody expected! Frat boys and math students joining forces over their shared mastery of the Greek alphabet. One group uses it to name their houses and throw parties, while the other uses it to describe angles, variables, and functions that will haunt your dreams. Both groups can recite "alpha, beta, gamma, delta" faster than they can remember their own phone numbers. The difference? One group's knowledge peaks at toga parties, the other's at partial differential equations. Yet here they are, arm-wrestling in solidarity over the linguistic bridge that connects beer pong and calculus.

Existential Crisis: Physics Lab Edition
Physics Academia Lab-life
3 months ago 11.9K views 0 shares
Existential Crisis: Physics Lab Edition
When your circuit refuses to work and suddenly you're contemplating the universe's greatest mystery: why you chose physics instead of literally anything else! Those differential equations on the board aren't calculating your happiness levels, that's for sure. The existential crisis hits hardest when you're surrounded by wires that make more connections than your social life. Somewhere between Ohm's Law and the third hour of troubleshooting, you realize that resistance isn't just a physical property—it's your soul fighting against another lab report!

Wrong Raman, Right Problem
Chemistry Physics Science Academia
3 months ago 20.7K views 0 shares
Wrong Raman, Right Problem
The ultimate scientific dad joke! People are out here struggling with physical chemistry while eating ramen noodles, and this meme hits them with a spectroscopy pun. That's a Raman spectroscopy graph on the left - a technique that measures molecular vibrations - paired with actual ramen noodles on the right. "Worried about the wrong Raman" is chef's kiss brilliant. Imagine failing your chem exam because you spent too much time perfecting your noodle-to-hot-water ratio instead of studying vibrational spectroscopy. Priorities, people!