The trauma of computer science condensed into one SpongeBob meme! The real horror isn't learning complex algorithms or debugging at 3 AM—it's the existential dread of MATLAB and arrays that start at index 1 instead of 0.
For the uninitiated: most programming languages start counting arrays from zero (like a proper, civilized society), but MATLAB decided chaos was more fun and starts at one. This tiny difference has caused more mental breakdowns than final exams and caffeine withdrawals combined.
The pure terror on SpongeBob's face perfectly captures that moment when you realize your 4-hour debugging nightmare was just because you forgot which indexing convention you're using. Programming languages should come with trauma warnings!