Technical diagrams Memes

Every electrical engineering student starts with the naive optimism that power systems should be straightforward—just 60Hz alternating current, right? Then reality hits with circuit diagrams that look like they were designed by a sadistic maze creator on a caffeine bender. The contrast between "how simple power should be" and the nightmare schematics that actually power our world is painfully real. Those complex diagrams aren't just lines—they're the reason EE students develop eye twitches by junior year.

The unholy trinity of STEM communication styles laid bare! Engineers with their detailed blueprints claiming perfect clarity while showing what might as well be the architectural plans for the Death Star. Physicists pretending their colorful quark diagram is "simplified" when they've just replaced actual quantum mechanics with pretty circles. And then there's mathematicians... wild-haired maniacs drawing abstract blobs with arrows, insisting it's a "morphism" while actively refusing to explain anything comprehensible. The progression from "I've made this perfectly clear" to "please stop asking questions" is the most honest representation of academic presentations I've seen in 30 years of faculty meetings.