Japanese People Have Low Entropy

When your subconscious perfectly combines Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics with... cats? The S.T.E.M. acronym gets a feline makeover that would make Schrödinger proud! That third cat exists in a quantum superposition between clear and blurry states. Your brain was clearly solving important scientific equations while you were dreaming - just with more whiskers than usual!

The dark side of potential energy! When your physics teacher says you have "great potential," they're talking about your academic abilities—but in physics, potential energy is literally stored energy waiting to be converted to kinetic energy. Standing on a rooftop means you've got maximum gravitational potential energy (mgh, where h is at its highest). One small step and... well, that potential becomes kinetic real quick! This is basically a physics student taking their teacher's encouragement way too literally. Converting potential to kinetic: technically following instructions, catastrophically missing the point.

Quantum physics meets evolutionary biology in one glorious pun. The double slit experiment—that mind-bending demonstration where particles behave as waves passing through two slits—apparently works on horses too! Send a white horse through and it transforms into a zebra on the other side. Clearly, nature's way of telling us that reality is just a matter of perspective and proper experimental setup. Next up: sending a cat through to test if it comes out both alive AND dead. Grant funding pending.

The engineering professor's version of "mind the gap!" That bridge is clearly the result of someone rounding π to 3 and gravity to 10 m/s² during calculations. Sure, vehicles can still go one direction... straight down! This is what happens when you take those "assume ideal conditions" instructions too literally. The civil engineer probably said "close enough" and went to lunch. Next time maybe spend the extra 0.14159 on proper measurements!

Engineering expectations vs reality in four panels of pure pain! The balloon starts off filled with "engineering college, depression, anxiety, and a single circuits course" facing the funnel of "high school motivation to change the world." Then BAM—reality hits and that idealistic balloon gets absolutely shredded by the engineering curriculum. That final panel is basically every engineering student after their first encounter with differential equations. Dreams: demolished. Self-esteem: in pieces. Coffee consumption: astronomical.

Left side: Your 5th grade egg drop contraption made of a plastic bag parachute and popsicle sticks. Right side: NASA engineers landing a $2.7 billion rover on Mars with a sky crane. Both technically did the same job—preventing crash landings. The gap between school science projects and actual aerospace engineering is roughly equivalent to the distance between Earth and Mars. Budget difference? About $2,699,999,995.