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We Get It, You Like Feeling Like A Bad Boy...

Engineering Tech Academia

21 days ago 3.9K views 0 shares

We Get It, You Like Feeling Like A Bad Boy...

The eternal struggle of the STEM graduate - watching friends debate the ethics of defense contractors while secretly checking Lockheed's salary packages. Nothing says "moral flexibility" quite like condemning military-industrial complexes until you see their benefits package. The real quantum superposition is holding anti-war values while simultaneously calculating how many missiles you'd need to design to pay off those student loans.

The Mathematical Fantasy Vs. Reality Equation

Math Academia Science Research

3 months ago 8.6K views 0 shares

The Mathematical Fantasy Vs. Reality Equation

Oh, the mathematical fantasy of yesteryear! Back in the day, a Ph.D. in Math supposedly meant unlimited job options and a salary that would make your calculator overheat. Fast forward to 2024, and most math doctorates are frantically explaining to their parents why they're still eating ramen while debugging code for a startup that pays in "exposure" and promises of stock options. The only equations they're solving now involve calculating how many roommates they need to afford rent! The academic dream vs. reality gap is wider than the distance between parallel lines that supposedly never meet (except in non-Euclidean geometry, which is coincidentally where dreams and reality intersect).