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)
zaise_chsa 19
They're difficult at first, but once you get it down you got it forever.
Luckster 0
Don't worry dude. I'm a woman and I still can't take the damned thing off myself half the time. The devil himself designed these things, I swear.
xxoo_fml 0
or maybe god designed them...haha
regalarius 0
That's what she said, right? :-P
Shizden 0
im a guy and i can unhook one easily under 5 seconds... but thats a bit different lol
kazz_fml 0
double post
kennington 0
haha, i knew how to unhook a bra on my first try :D it was awesome!
bananapajama 0
i don't see why osme one with a phd wouldn't like to laugh either? to me it seems just as likely to have someone with a phd (who would be in their mid to late 20s) as someone with a teenage daughter (who would be late 40s ish?). no one calls shennanigans on those guys.
AeeVee 0
hey... that's not fair! perhaps more than any other group of people, we PhDs (or PhD candidates) need to distract themselves from the agony of realizing that even the most advanced degree a university has to offer won't make life make any more sense. This site fits the bill perfectly.
thepointinlife 0
hahaha i swear half the guys in the world dont know hot to unhook a bra. i dont know why its so confusing *she says as she ignores the millions of times shes struggled with one...*
likeanoutlawbayb 0
i can unhook my own in 5 seconds or less. but if a guy even remotely tries epic fail and i wind up doing it myself. i don't understand the difficulty. practice makes perfect. struggling is a totally turn off.
likeanoutlawbayb 0
total*
sexy_chan 0
As a woman, I don't understand why unhooking them is difficult. Often times I find putting them on to me the most difficult part especially if I’m tired. I miss the stupid holes that you put the hook through. T.T
spirited_away33 0
I agree with #79. I think putting them ON is much harder than taking them off, at least for me.
Tezasaurous 0
The trick is that even if you're having trouble use that time, to do other things. Gotta keep the fire going, especially while your blowing wind on it. I speak from experience. FML
Lexia_fml 0
You're dumb. For so many reasons. But anyway, if it worries you, go to a freaking department store (to practice) and say your girlfriend made you buy her one. Or if you're brave, that she made you practice.
bollywood_rocks 0
Care to name one of the reasons? All of a sudden,he's dumb for not knowing how to unhook a bra? You people need to have your priorities sorted out
lmmmr 0
I guarantee you he is not dumb.
Jazzywrites007 2
"Hold On, What do you mean you people?" "What do *YOU* mean you people!?" Tropic Thunder is the shit.
itsa_me_Ryan 4
"you're dumb"....guy has a PhD and designed underwater robots
itsa_me_Ryan 4
wow I just realized that was almost 10 years ago.....i feel stupid now....
msbetsy 0
Honestly, I'd rather a man didn't even try to unhook my bra. Men tend to bend or break the hooks with their big, clumsy fingers.
shostakovich 0
We thank you for your generalisations.
ElMundio87 0
lol with an attitude like that, it's surprising that anyone would WANT to unhook your bra
msbetsy 0
I'm sure my husband would, but he's too busy pleasing me in ways that matter.
DieterDerBlau 0
yea, prolly doing your dishes, your laundry, cleaning the house, and otherwise being a puss, right?