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The Oscillating Curriculum
Engineering Physics Academia
24 days ago 5.4K views 0 shares
The Oscillating Curriculum
Engineering professors have exactly two examples in their repertoire: the pendulum and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. You can set your watch by it. First day of class: "Let's discuss simple harmonic motion." Week 7: "Remember how the Tacoma Bridge oscillated itself into oblivion? No? Let me show you the footage for the 47th time." The cycle continues, semester after semester, like a perfectly damped oscillator.

What Do You Mean "Practical Use"?
Math Academia Science
1 month ago 5.4K views 0 shares
What Do You Mean "Practical Use"?
Mathematicians live in their beautiful world of abstract concepts until someone dares ask "but what's this used for in real life?" Then comes the existential crisis vomit. They've spent hours deriving elegant proofs about n-dimensional manifolds only to struggle explaining why anyone should care. "Well, um, you could... calculate the optimal... something?" Pure mathematicians would rather prove the existence of 11 dimensions than provide one practical example that normal humans understand.

The College Difficulty Curve
Physics Academia Math
1 month ago 5.9K views 0 shares
The College Difficulty Curve
The academic glow-down is REAL! In high school geometry, "Let's do an example" means a nice, straightforward problem that actually helps you understand. But then college thermodynamics hits and suddenly "Let's do an example" translates to "Watch me derive the entropy of a black hole using only chalk and my godlike intellect while you desperately try to take notes." The professor's idea of a "simple example" is basically the final boss of physics problems! No wonder we're all begging for more examples that don't make our brains melt.

I Would Be So Lost Without Examples
Academia Science
2 months ago 4.3K views 0 shares
I Would Be So Lost Without Examples
Every science student knows that moment when a concept seems impossibly abstract until the professor does an example. Suddenly, that incomprehensible quantum field theory transforms from "some abstract concept" into "oh, it's just like calculating how many electrons get excited when you drop your coffee mug." The academic version of turning on the lights in a dark room. The divine intervention we all pray for during lecture 37 of "Introduction to Things No Human Should Understand."