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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natedog71221 4
A=pi(r)squared
mama2b3 20
what everybody else said. ^
americiato 2
That's a clear sign your neurons are comiting suicide ... D: Been there :(
ideasrule 13
Normally I have sympathy in cases like this, but this is taking stupidity way too far. How can an engineer not know the area of a circle? How did you get past middle school math, high school math, high school physics, university physics, and calculus without having the formula drilled into your head? Also, how did you not know that to find the area of a circle, you just integrate 2*pi*r*dr from 0 to R, which gives you pi*R^2?
PandaLoverXD 12
They just forgot. It happens sometimes, especially if you don't use that formula for a long time.
asherm 15
So you forgot something, it happens when you stuff all that other shit in your brain. I'm mathematically challenged myself. Thankfully I have the calculator on phone lol
ZielZone 4
Wow... College educated and don't know the basics. Just goes to show, you can be an over educated idiot.
its_so_ironic 5
Easy way to remember it: Cherry pies delicous, apple pies are too! C=pi d A=pi r2
hellokeroppi 5
Maybe you should find a new major
mieks 18
I'm studying to be an engineer, and most of my fellow students (myself included) need to google stuff like that. Maybe it just means you're smart, like not knowing left and right!
umrchop 2
Must go to Mizzou.