Today, I realized that a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering does not offer enough knowledge and experience to accomplish some simple, everyday tasks. I have spent the last 12 years designing large robots to scour the seabed for shipwrecks yet the mechanism used to unhook a bra eludes me. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it was still easier for me to get an engineering PhD than it is to get a girlfriend. FML
Today, I had to Google how to find the area of a circle. I'm working on my PhD in engineering. FML
Today, I found out that the engineers I work with believe that a woman with an engineering degree working in an engineering company is apparently equivalent to a "secretary for engineers." I am that woman. FML
Today, I just started working in my core job domain, and all the guys working with me are giving up on their their jobs, because there's no future for it. It sucks being a mechanical design engineer in a country full of IT companies who just want us to convert. FML
Today, it appears that I spent three years of my life studying for a degree to find myself driving around looking for potholes. That's literally my job. I didn't even study roading, my civil engineering degree is in designing structures. FML
Today, my boss quit, leaving me as the only structural engineer at my company. I'm fresh out of college and will have to finish the projects on my own. Hope Google can teach me how to do this. FML
Today, I realised being the only female engineering student sucks. I have exactly one friend, because everyone else is too busy staring at my boobs to have a conversation. FML
Today, my dad insists he knows best when it comes to DIY, since he is a big mathematics professor, while I am a mere labourer with dozens of City and Guilds qualifications. He owns one hammer, an unopened screwdriver set, and a wood saw with a broken handle, but sure, he knows better than me. FML
Today, just to have a chance of a future career, I had to major in Data Science. Here's to 2.5 more years of soul-crushing tedium and passionless abstraction. If I had the resources to control my own life, I would have been a tradesman so I wouldn't have to sacrifice 4 years of my life on this. FML
Today, I realized that I know more about the history of the Transformers than I do about talking to women. FML
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Tubasaurus 0
Inspiration for a new robot to design maybe?
Alexgoesfml 3
Honestly it sucks for you. You failed your sophmore year.
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Comments (265)
webby320 0
lol. you lose. it's really not a hard contraption. Promise.
byaaah 0
lmfao i hear ya brotha!! that ***** hard to do!
RDMC20 0
man its a joke, i did it one handed from day one, get some manual dexterity...besides, i have a bachelors in engineering, and we all know the guys who are going to go for their PHD's are the nerds who love school, so this makes sense.
YamsInTrouble 0
its purpose made to be imposible and embarass the guy trying to work it
jack01 0
ok, now I'm totally convinced that stupid people have more sex.
AndysSolace 0
Are you serious? It's so easy. You just push...
jt8787 0
andysolace, you're and idiot...you PINCH and everyone knows that. everyone else...lol stop telling this poor bastard to go to a store or w.e. and practise. practise with a girl for one thing and just pinch that shit and watch it fly off, no lie. and **** those stupid criss cross bras, girls that wear that shit without tellnig a guy while he's struggling to take it off = BITCH!
Hjelloo 0
The first thing that popped into my mind was the skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Upper Class Twit Olympics.
hellFighter 0
lol, it would be FYL, but since you have a PhD in MechE you must be like 28-30... so YDI.
thalik 0
pinch and twist dude.