He Eventually Became An Engineer

The existential crisis hits different when you realize you picked the wrong PhD path! This meme perfectly captures the academic hierarchy of suffering. Math PhDs are legendarily unemployable, but physics PhDs thought they had it better... until they didn't. It's that moment when you discover both fields lead to the same career wasteland, but with different equations. The "R: 15 / I: 1" at the top is 4chan formatting, where misery loves company and advanced degrees are just expensive wall decorations. The dramatic clutching of pearls reaction is every physicist who suddenly realizes their ability to calculate quantum field theories doesn't help with calculating how to pay rent.

The engineering genius of arches in one DIY desk experiment! Top image shows a paper bridge collapsing under the weight of a red marker—classic structural failure. Bottom image? Same materials, but with an arch cut out, and suddenly it's supporting the marker like it's nothing. This perfectly demonstrates how removing material can actually increase strength through force redistribution. Civil engineers have been using this trick since Roman times, while the rest of us are just discovering it during procrastination sessions. Next time you cross a bridge, thank the arch!

The baby's first words aren't "mama" or "dada" but "IDEAL GAS"! 😂 This chemistry nerd parent's dream come true! The equation PV = nRT is the Ideal Gas Law - the foundational equation that describes how pressure, volume, temperature, and amount of gas molecules relate under perfect conditions. It's basically the "baby's first formula" for chemistry students! That parent's face of disappointment is every chemistry professor when students forget this equation on exams!

The mathematical mom just dropped the most savage physics burn of all time! Those equations at the bottom aren't just decoration—they're showing that both kids have the same momentum (p=mv), but the second child has way more kinetic energy (E=½mv²). Translation: "I love you both equally" quickly becomes "I love the faster one more" because energy increases with the square of velocity! That's not just playing favorites—that's mathematically proven favoritism! 😂 This is exactly why physicists shouldn't be trusted with parenting decisions. Equal momentum does NOT mean equal love when kinetic energy has entered the chat!

The nerd joke to end all nerd jokes. Newton looking unimpressed with just "1 Newton" of force (barely enough to move an apple), but absolutely delighted by "1 Giga Newton" (enough force to launch a small rocket). Physics students making unit conversion jokes is how you know they've completely lost touch with normal human interaction. Next thing you know they'll be giggling about megapascals at parties and wondering why they're drinking alone.

Classical mechanics is that strict parent screaming "IT'S THE LAW!" when F=ma and objects can't exceed light speed. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics is the rebellious teenager smugly declaring "I am above the law" while particles exist in multiple places simultaneously and electrons tunnel through barriers they shouldn't be able to cross. Newton's rolling in his grave while Schrödinger's cat is both laughing and not laughing at the same time. Physics has trust issues.