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Electromagnetic Identity Crisis
Physics Academia Science
12 days ago 3.7K views 0 shares
Electromagnetic Identity Crisis
That moment of physics class confusion when your brain short-circuits! The meme perfectly captures that bewildered freshman experience when you discover magnetism and electricity aren't separate topics—they're actually joined at the hip as electromagnetism! The poor confused frog doesn't realize that magnetic fields are created by moving electric charges, and changing magnetic fields generate electric currents. It's like ordering a pizza and being confused when cheese shows up too. Welcome to physics, where nothing is ever as simple as it first appears!

When Math Fails Chemistry Class
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23 days ago 9.4K views 0 shares
When Math Fails Chemistry Class
The crushing realization that liquids don't always add up like your high school math teacher promised. When water and ethanol mix, their molecules get all cozy and compact, creating a volume less than the sum of their parts. It's called volume contraction, and it's the first clue that chemistry is just physics with commitment issues. The look of existential dread says it all—welcome to college, where even basic addition betrays you.

The Dark Side Of Engineering
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29 days ago 5.8K views 0 shares
The Dark Side Of Engineering
Engineering students start with such optimism! They enter as bright-eyed Luke Skywalkers, ready to harness the mystical powers of calculus and physics. Fast forward to senior year—they've fully embraced the dark side, looking like Kylo Ren begging for sweet release from differential equations and senior design projects. The transformation from "I want to learn the ways of the Force" to "I want to be free of this pain" is basically what happens when you realize those 8 AM thermodynamics classes were actually the easy part. The engineering curriculum doesn't just teach you mechanics; it teaches you suffering.

Crushing Dreams And Physics Reality Since Day One
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1 month ago 5.2K views 0 shares
Crushing Dreams And Physics Reality Since Day One
Physics professors really do wake up and choose violence on day one! 😂 That moment when they crush childhood fantasies AND physics intuition in one fell swoop. "No air resistance" is basically the physics equivalent of "once upon a time" – a magical phrase that transforms messy reality into perfect mathematical wonderlands where bowling balls and feathers fall at the same rate. It's that special moment when students realize their entire physics education will happen in a frictionless vacuum where spherical cows roam free!

The Math Hierarchy Of Doom
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1 month ago 4.5K views 0 shares
The Math Hierarchy Of Doom
The math progression trauma is real! First-year students can get away with hating statistics and calculus, but dissing linear algebra? That's when the math gods snap! Linear algebra is like that quiet kid who turns out to be the final boss - matrices, vectors, and eigenvalues are the foundation of basically EVERYTHING in advanced math and computer science. Say you don't like linear algebra and suddenly your professor, your TAs, and even that math app on your phone take personal offense. It's the mathematical equivalent of insulting someone's entire family tree!

First Year Chemistry Students... Or Maybe Just Me
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1 month ago 5.6K views 0 shares
First Year Chemistry Students... Or Maybe Just Me
Orbital theory: where chemistry students silently nod along while picturing electron clouds as fuzzy blobs with names like "2p" and "3d." It's that special moment in every chemistry class when the professor casually transitions from "here's a simple atom model" to "now let's discuss hybridized molecular orbital theory" and everyone's brain short-circuits. The fear is real—asking questions might expose you as the only one who thinks HOMO and LUMO sound like a comedy duo rather than highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals. Don't worry though, even your professor probably draws them wrong half the time.

Welcome To Academic Purgatory
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1 month ago 3.8K views 0 shares
Welcome To Academic Purgatory
The academic food chain in its natural habitat! First-year students staring in horror at their potential future—grown adults crammed into a kiddie pool labeled "People Retaking 1st Year Courses." That moment when you realize college isn't just about making friends and attending parties, but also about potentially spending eternity in Organic Chemistry purgatory. The terrified expressions of the freshmen perfectly capture that "Is this my destiny?" existential crisis that hits around midterm week. Remember kids, study now or join the splash zone later!

The Fall Of An Icon
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1 month ago 5.6K views 0 shares
The Fall Of An Icon
Remember memorizing "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" and thinking you were a biology genius? Then university hits and suddenly your classmates are discussing electron transport chains while you're still stuck on the catchphrase. The educational equivalent of bringing a spoon to a gunfight! That high school biology catchphrase doesn't quite carry the academic weight we once thought it did. Welcome to higher education, where your cherished factoids get absolutely demolished by actual scientific understanding.

The Engineering School Transformation
Engineering Academia
1 month ago 5.4K views 0 shares
The Engineering School Transformation
Engineering school doesn't build character—it destroys it. Those bright-eyed freshmen with their crisp hard hats and unblemished optimism have no idea what's coming. Four years later? Sleep-deprived zombies who've forgotten what sunlight looks like, surviving on caffeine and desperation. The transformation from "I'm going to build the future!" to "Dear god, just let me graduate" happens somewhere between Thermodynamics and that group project where you did all the work. The only magic at this school is how they turn functioning humans into hollow-eyed husks who can calculate stress tensors in their sleep—if they ever got any.

First Year Students Be Like: Zero Problems
Physics Academia Science
1 month ago 5.4K views 0 shares
First Year Students Be Like: Zero Problems
Nothing captures the unbridled optimism of first-year physics students quite like thinking they can ignore air resistance. Sure, your skin problems might disappear with that fancy lotion, but good luck making drag forces vanish when you're calculating projectile motion! That beautiful parabola you drew? Pure fantasy. In the real world, your calculations will crash and burn faster than your GPA after midterms. By senior year, you'll be muttering "assuming a spherical cow in vacuum" in your sleep.

The Evolution Of A Physics Student
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1 month ago 6.5K views 0 shares
The Evolution Of A Physics Student
The duality of physics students! On the left, we have the happy-go-lucky freshman who thinks physics is just "velocity equals distance over time" and life is a carefree joyride. Meanwhile on the right, the hardened senior who's been traumatized by the full arsenal of kinematic equations, acceleration nightmares, and the existential dread of non-uniform motion. Nothing says "I've seen things" quite like the thousand-yard stare of someone who's had to solve for initial velocity using the quadratic formula at 3 AM. The transformation from "physics is fun!" to "physics is pain" happens faster than free-fall acceleration.

The Math Major's Journey Of Doom
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1 month ago 5.3K views 0 shares
The Math Major's Journey Of Doom
Those innocent freshman math majors reaching for the pretty "calculus is cool" flower while the train of Real Analysis barrels down the tracks! That's basically the math major pipeline in one image! 😂 First year: "Derivatives are fun! Look at these neat integrals!" Junior year: *sobbing over epsilon-delta proofs while questioning every life choice* The mathematical innocence never survives the first encounter with "prove that this seemingly obvious statement is true using only first principles." Trust me, we've all been that person on the tracks!