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Knowledge Should Be Free

Knowledge Should Be Free
The financial reality of higher education hits different when you realize a semester of Physics costs more than a car. Meanwhile, countless students are tapping their temples knowingly after mastering complex concepts through free online tutorials. That $60,920 tuition fee could buy approximately 60,920 packets of instant ramen—or zero student debt if you find the right YouTube channel. The educational revolution isn't happening in ivy-covered buildings—it's happening in comment sections where "thanks bro, you explained in 10 minutes what my professor couldn't in 3 weeks" has become the highest academic praise possible.

A Duck Quacks Like A Duck

A Duck Quacks Like A Duck
The circular definition of a tensor might be the most expensive knowledge that physics student ever acquired! $200,000 in tuition to learn "a tensor is something that transforms like a tensor" is peak academic comedy. It's like defining water as "the wet stuff that makes things wet." The duck analogy is brilliant though—sometimes in mathematics and physics, we define things by their properties rather than what they intrinsically are. Next time someone asks me to explain eigenvalues, I'll just say "they're the values that eigen." That'll be $50,000, please.

The $120,000 YouTube Premium Subscription

The $120,000 YouTube Premium Subscription
The economics of higher education, distilled into one perfect joke! This is basically every college student during the pandemic who paid full tuition for the privilege of watching professors struggle with Zoom. $120,000 for a glorified YouTube subscription with mandatory attendance? That's not education—that's Stockholm syndrome with student loans. The real experiment wasn't in the chemistry lab, it was seeing how many students would keep paying premium prices for education.exe running in safe mode.