The Muscular Power Of Forgetting Units

Two students staring at an oscilloscope with pure existential terror while a squiggly line mocks their very existence! That magical moment when your professor says "just build a simple circuit" but your waveform looks like it's having a seizure. 104.6 microseconds of difference? Might as well be light-years away from a passing grade! The faces perfectly capture that special blend of confusion and horror when you realize electricity doesn't actually care about your feelings or your GPA. Welcome to EE101, where dreams of building robots are quickly replaced by nightmares about capacitor discharge curves!

Einstein's famous equation E=MC² just got a hilarious makeover for the perpetually pessimistic physicist! The meme dissects every possible negative interpretation of the symbols in the equation - from "vertical minus" to "diagonal minus" to even "squared (makes it extra negative)." The punchline about AI having "potential to impact the future" is that perfect blend of scientific anxiety and dark humor that only STEM folks truly appreciate. It's like someone took the most revolutionary equation in physics and turned it into a diagram for their emotional state during finals week!

Physics is just copying and pasting with different letters! The linear motion equations are sitting there with their v's and x's, while angular motion equations are giving side-eye with their fancy ω's and θ's. It's the same homework assignment but make it spin . Classic physics move—take something straightforward, rotate it, and boom—whole new chapter in the textbook. The professor who invented this probably got tenure for essentially writing "find and replace" in Microsoft Word.

Every electrical engineering student after getting zapped by their first circuit! Franklin's single-fluid theory proposed that electricity flowed from positive to negative—but we now know electrons actually flow in the opposite direction. This convention mismatch haunts engineers to this day, forcing them to deal with "conventional current" (positive to negative) while knowing the physical reality is completely backwards. The fiery backdrop perfectly captures the rage of anyone who's ever had to mentally flip directions while troubleshooting a circuit at 3AM. Thanks Ben, you've condemned generations to electrical confusion!

It's the scientific food chain in action! Each field thinks it's the top dog while getting threatened by the next level of reductionism. Biology smugly sits there until Chemistry shows up with a gun saying "you're just applied chemistry." Then Physics crashes the party threatening Chemistry as "just applied physics." But wait! The final boss appears from the shadows - Mathematics - ready to reduce Physics to mere equations! The eternal academic turf war continues... and somewhere a philosopher is loading a bazooka labeled "but what even IS mathematics?"

The eternal dance of the right-hand rule strikes again! Nothing quite captures the frantic desperation of a physics student like watching them contort their fingers into increasingly bizarre configurations during an exam. While the English teacher supervising the exam wonders if you're having a seizure, you're just trying to figure out if the current is going up, down, or into the 5th dimension. The best part? After all that hand yoga, you'll still probably get it wrong and blame it on "forgetting to flip the vector." Classic physics student coping mechanism.