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)
plexico 4
I also have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and have an Occam's Razor-type solution to removing women's bras. Let's have a seminar: Bra Removal 801 "Bitch, take off your bra!" Class dismissed.
mawile 0
That was hilarious. I thank you, kind sir, for the laugh.
plexico 4
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
regalarius 0
I think that a approach better in keeping with Occam's Razor might be: "Bitch, you better not be wearing a bra!" The simplest solution is the best: do not allow the bra to enter into the equation. :-)
AMelodyofJuly 0
Brilliant.
darkheadlights 4
I can't believe how many guys have trouble with it. We do it every single day, often without even looking. Practice! :-)
daarlingdamsel 0
lol, my fiance can do it with one hand under my shirt without looking, he has learned well, but he's rather sneaky!!! Keep practicing haha
davidtheday 0
I'm a nerd and I can take the bra off a woman with one hand in a single, swift motion. Practice makes perfect ;-)
Gneekman 0
Got it one-handed my first try, but maybe I was just lucky.
Postlude 1
Honestly, I think it's kind of cute. One of my bras has hooks that got a little bent so it takes a bit of oomph and it always makes my boyfriend flustered. :)
menelie 0
Tip: It's got sort of a first-in, then-out to it.
LuckyCharms_fml 0
I said YDI for the simple fact that was grossly overworded
Aulo 0
Haha, practice makes perfect. And don't worry, it's what you do after the bra is off that really matters.
Flounder 2
How is this an "FML" (and what idiot approved it as such)? It's just an excuse to talk about your job.