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
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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bizarre_ftw 22
Be honest, your daddy greased a few palms to get you in to college didn't he?
j_cat187 20
You mean with his dick?
japtch 15
I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here... But I like your picture.. Hmm... What to do? *press thumbs up* Damn my impulses.
quite_bored 9
I'm pretty sure forgetting one of many formulas is not a sign she's not college material.
Angelrose2004 17
Op's name says it all for everyone debating on the formula.
erin_may 2
YouTube the circle song! Very helpful
iamyourgod 3
I run into that same kind of problem all the time. You know your an engineer when the area or volume of a simple shape slips your mind but you immediately know how to find it with multivariable integrals.
Pr0metheus 7
Same problem for a student of statistics, I can set up, collect data for, and run a multivariate hypothesis test. But ask me to tell you what constitutes an isosceles triangle, and I'll be stumped.
msjoyfull84 0
Ah, the problems of a engineer.
AfroD 0
An*
msjoyfull84 0
Sir. You need to get laid.
AfroD 0
And you madam need a gramar book level 2... Or maybe level 1
RedPillSucks 33
*grammar*
KLrawr94359 0
I'm in Junior High and I know the area of a circle formula on the top of my head... Sometimes our brain needs to be refreshed though!
DocBastard 40
Imagine if I forgot something basic while doing surgery. "Damn, are arteries the blue ones or the red ones? These in here are all sort of reddish brown! Shit, will you go and google 'colon anatomy' real quick?"
j_cat187 20
Be safe and cut them both
j_cat187 20
That's really bad. What's the area of a sphere with a 5(3.14)/9 rad section removed?
drawmesunshine 17
6.
iamyourgod 3
That impossible to answer. Is it the globe or a tennis ball?
Ali_Br_fml 33
Do you mean the surface area or the volume? The basic formulas are Volume is (4/3)*pi*r^3 Surface area is 4*pi*r^2 Assuming everyone knows I'm multiplying with the * symbol and raising the number that precedes the ^ symbol to the power of a number that follows the ^ symbol Oh, and pi isn't exactly 3.14, we just call it that because the number never ends...ever...We can never get an exact number for pi... We can never get the exact area of a circle, volume of a sphere, surface area...or anything that has to do with pi. The most correct answer would be to just leave the pi symbol in the answer. Don't you just hate uncertainty?
KiddNYC1O 22
Player haters degree, nice.
poprocksss73 7
Pretty huge Dick
eveadamsnyc 2
I fear our future. People get dumber and dumber ever day. The only other engineer I know is a cross dressing coke head who runs transit systems in a major city. We're doomed.
docscientist 10
What are you doing to improve our future?
TheFirstSamurai 18
Complaining on FML.