Laughing through the Pain of Engineering

We should all find an excuse to laugh now and then. The BYU Design Review is not pranking you today, but we did think it timely to take a break from our normal content and bring some smiles to our readers’ faces. 

Whatever engineering discipline you come from, we can all agree that life is hard and engineering problems don’t make it any easier.

This might be the source of our pain. Are engineering tests this hard for everyone? It doesn’t matter the field of engineering, tests seem to hit us especially hard. 

Exam fuel anyone? I don’t know about you, but the x-axis is the only right way. Anyone who eats a burrito in the z or y axis, or spherical coordinate system (how would that even work?) might need some psychological help. 

Maybe studying more for the exams with a partner and a whiteboard would be more helpful than a properly eaten burrito. But it is definitely a longer process.

If only this were true! Life as an engineer never has its shortage of stress and maybe we could alleviate one further stress by eliminating our electricity bills!

The Emperor would be very pleased with the amount of power from the stress of losing files.

I don’t know if imposter syndrome is as prevalent elsewhere as it is in universities, but Google is the saving grace of all engineering students.

Then once we can get Google to work, we come up with this fantastic design that we feel has so much promise! Arthur’s clenched fist is just the beginning of our feelings when someone tries to dash those dreams.

Like this one! Imagine being able to look at the details of moon without a telescope from the comfort of your own backyard. This meme does still teach a good lesson of remembering to keep your designs user-centric.

As always in your design process, remember that you stand on the shoulders of giants. The human race would not have gotten far without the greatest invention since itself.