pirsquared
United States
Today, I had to Google how to find the area of a circle. I'm working on my PhD in engineering. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
United States
Prepared
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
mathguy
Green Bay, United States
Today, I went for a job interview for a building position at a retail store. They saw on my application that I was good at math. They asked me what the circumference of a circle is. Being nervous during the interview, I accidentally said the area of a circle. I didn't get the job. FML
still single
Santa Maria, Brazil
Today, it was still easier for me to get an engineering PhD than it is to get a girlfriend. FML
ImAnEngineer
Canandaigua, United States
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
Anonymous
Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
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
jibjab
Canada
Today, I have a degree in electrical engineering, my wife was doing a crossword and asked me what are the units of capacitance, I couldn't remember. FML
hopelesscollegestudent
Canada
Today, I asked my college chemistry teacher for some much-needed help. Instead of explaining anything to me, she scoffed that if I don't understand something, I should "just Google it." FML
Anonymous
Turn left into the lake
Today, I got into a heated, one-sided argument with my GPS, and ended up driving around in circles for an hour due to roadworks messing with my GPS's computations. FML
aviators
United States
Today, I got back my math test. Instead of taking the time to mark the mistakes, my professor just circled the bottom half of the page and wrote "OMG." FML
anonymous
Tucson, United States
Today, I have a final for my precalculus class. After hours of studying this week, I felt pretty optimistic. Until I got to class and realized that I'd forgotten my calculator. FML
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urdirtyolduncle 15
Pi(r)^2
krystal1609 4
To smart for the basic stuff!
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krystal1609 4
To smart for the basic stuff!
urdirtyolduncle 15
^Too smart to know the difference between "too," and "to."
NeatNit 33
No no no! Smart is a verb! I see where you're coming from though. To nazi for the basic stuff.
xSonic 9
We all forget the basics sometimes op. It's alright. There was a professional baseball player who was messing up simply for not focusing on the ball. :)
bhangu023 0
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
I'm in engineering to, engineers don't really need a phd, masters is more than enough
peteyfas 8
But phd students get PAID!
leogirl95 12
Happens to all of us. I still count on my fingers and I'm in precalculus lol.
duke56924903 11
A master's is more than enough unless you want to do research or teach.
emmanizzer 6
Ha I still count on my fingers amd I'm in Calculus BC. That's what calculators are for!
LookOnBrightSide 12
*Too Sorry, had to do it.
jonriise18 3
Looks like you're TOO smart for basic spelling of the English language.
IphonFML 6
# 1 is right is a way. When u learn new, more advanced things, basic knowledge sorta just disappears
stevenJB 25
I still count on my fingers...in my mind! Because I'm in calculus. :P
xcarxcrashx 9
I didn't take any of that fancy math and I add in my head bitches!
herrobear 0
56, you do realize that pre calculus is times tables for OP, right?
RedPillSucks 33
If she doesn't know the area of a circle, the times tables might be a challenge as well.
honeybunches88 5
Who cares why the OP is going for the PhD. Good job for not just doing the bare minimum!
eyepuppy 31
As an engineer, I can tell you that you'll probably never stop looking up "basic" equations. being an engineer is more about creatively solving problems than remembering a few equations.
urdirtyolduncle 15
Pi(r)^2
juturnaamo 29
That's circumference smart guy.
teven0855 6
...it's actually area
juturnaamo 29
Dammit, you're right :p
djr4jtm 0
The circumference is actually pi*D or 2piR
urdirtyolduncle 15
Why the **** am I being thumbed down for saying the right answer, while others, who have done the same, are not? Do you people have something against your dirty old uncle?
Pr0metheus 7
You do realize that now that you complained about it everyone's going to thumb it down for kicks and giggles right?
GovernorGeneral 8
* giggle giggle*
urdirtyolduncle 15
Yeah; thumb me down! I live off of it; it's like air for me!! I can't ******* get enough of it! I'm hooked, like a fat kid on chocolate cake!
GovernorGeneral 8
Fat kids dont nescessarily have to like chocolate. Im a little overweight and i hate chocolate...and cake and all that other chocolate stuff. And other sweets. But not all. But you go gurlll!!!! Tell em who boss ;) Show them how much you like their hate WOOH!
urdirtyolduncle 15
*hyperventilates*
bizarre_ftw 22
Technically might I mention you didn't get it right, it's Pi•rE2 :)
Pr0metheus 7
That is quite literally what was already up ^=E on a calculator, either will perform the same function
Jimster1712 0
45 , hes right and there is no difference the pronuneral 'e' is unnessecary, i have been seeing you commenting around here lately and you really have to shut up, you attention *****.
paintingxflowers 8
Jimster - thank youuuuuuuuu. amen to that.
bizarre_ftw 22
You got that half right, I talk too much and it translates into my comments, yes, but I've looked very deeply into my soul, I even hired a PI to check out deep dark secrets I know nothing about. I learned I have an irrational fear of cotton candy, when I was four I thought a parakeet was going to kill me and ever since I love bunt cake, and that my subconscious is cheating on me, but nowhere did I find even a tiny scrap of attention *****-ness. Sure the signs are there, but they indicate something far stranger than what you are picking up. Sorry, try again?
ThatOneCanadian 0
OMG bizarre why are you still on fml, stop trying
Riya2595 15
So which one: ? r ^2 or 2 ? r ? Haha. I love circles!
ImInYourFACEbook 8
8, I learned this song in 8th grade about circumference, maybe it will help you. "Twinkle twinkle little star, circumference equals 2(Pi)(r)!"
Redoxx_fml 22
Thanks Google!
Gringe 1
On my calculators E=10^x so Pi*rE2 is wrong...
hiitisbrooke 28
Sometimes we forget stupid stuff xD don't worry, its Pi(R)squared
Dontstealmyname 11
Your profile pic! HAHAHAHAH!
ilovechrissy14 0
Um no its not it's pie r^2
KeyboardWarrior 10
^2 is to the power of two. To the power of two is also referred to as a number squared. Nice try.
ubetrwatchBN 5
Op...solutions manuals are not the answer (no pun intended). I'm an ME senior and appalled at how many...idiots...have made it this far using those, but maybe you just had a brain fart, I don't know. However, a word of advice: depending on which discipline it is, we usually just say (pi/4)D^2 because working with diameters is often more convenient.
cassiebear7652 7
Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear, area equals pi r squared
rainer13 11
pi x radius squared.
Shrike 24
Nice edit...
thatASIANman 2
I don't blame yah. With all the formulas we have to memorize, sometimes you forget the simple ones.
JRT1393 13
This!! So many numbers going through my head I forget everything!
datoismyname 22
You better switch majors, quick!
j_cat187 20
Communications major: the polar opposite of civil engineering.
GoW_Chick 15
Knowledge is power! You must not be very powerful..
teven0855 6
?r^2
drawmesunshine 17
"Doctor, I'm ready for my heart transplant." "Hang on, let me Google how to do it first." You deserve it.
GovernorGeneral 8
" ok doctor , you google that while i google how to change doctors "
MedKits 9
Too bad engineers don't save lives on split second decisions
RedPillSucks 33
Engineers built the Tacoma narrows bridge. Just think what might have happened had a doctor or an ambulance been on that bridge when it collapsed. Engineers may not save lives in split second decisions, but they do save or endanger lives based on how well they do their work.
GovernorGeneral 8
Whoah. I had to google that shit yesterday for my math exam this morning. Im in grade 10 though.... fyl :D
urdirtyolduncle 15
I had to sneak out during an exam to look it up on my iPhone.. I'm in college, though.
GovernorGeneral 8
What the heeck lol. Here in my high school you have to be supervised by 2 people to go to the washroom. And they take you ipod and such D; I hAvnt gone myself but yaaah.
urdirtyolduncle 15
Wow that's even more strict then airport security. Not like you have a bomb switch on you.
drawmesunshine 17
44, what in gay Hell kinda Communist high school do you go to? That seems unnecessarily strict.
drooller 9
Well it's not that shocking, in my school, during the national exams (done at the end of o-level and a-levels), we have the police over... But in regular exams, nah!!
hisgirlherboy 5
I didn't have to ether of those things cause I'm not stupid. I'm in 7th grade though.
urdirtyolduncle 15
^congratulations. Now, go **** yourself.