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Andromeda321
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Hello everyone,
I wasn't quite sure which forum to fit this under so if it's the wrong one please forgive me. I recently wrote the following for my campus's humor magazine but I have a feeling like other people here will enjoy it as well.
For the record, P121 is the physics course on my campus that all the engineering and science majors need to take (ie virtually everyone) which covers basic kinematics. Enjoy!
RIME OF THE PHYSICS STUDENT
It's late at night, my mind is weary
Eyes are bloodshot, vision bleary
I know not what I'm really thinking
My sanity is surely winking
Yet I stay up for I am not done
With homework for P121.
My mind's back from a temporary lull
And contemplates a bouncing ball
Then reasons shouts out, with great diction,
"Idiot! You forgot friction!"
So I cross out numbers written there
And hang my head in great dispair.
I am at a lost an panicked too
Because I don't know what to do!
I factor out "t", I integrate
But the mistakes do not abate
I feel like a failure and a fool...
What's life like in the business school?
But I see throught that confusing mist
After all, I am a physicist!
I know the movements of block and book
Using laws from Newton and Hooke
I know the bowling ball's energy
Based on it's squared velocity.
I now see myself years down the line
Where physics glory is all mine
The secret of dark matter I know
Having found the neutralino
My proof is so clear and bold
I win myself some Swedish gold!
But as I start my acceptance speech
I hear a harshly ringing screech
A startling thought to my mind does creep-
Oh my God, I've fallen asleep!
It's eight in the morn, not late at one
And my damned homework's still not done!
I stare at my paper with a frown
And jot some garbled numbers down
And before I can think anymore
It's in my bag; I'm out the door
And as I'm walking I pray my best
That problem won't be on the test!
I wasn't quite sure which forum to fit this under so if it's the wrong one please forgive me. I recently wrote the following for my campus's humor magazine but I have a feeling like other people here will enjoy it as well.
For the record, P121 is the physics course on my campus that all the engineering and science majors need to take (ie virtually everyone) which covers basic kinematics. Enjoy!
RIME OF THE PHYSICS STUDENT
It's late at night, my mind is weary
Eyes are bloodshot, vision bleary
I know not what I'm really thinking
My sanity is surely winking
Yet I stay up for I am not done
With homework for P121.
My mind's back from a temporary lull
And contemplates a bouncing ball
Then reasons shouts out, with great diction,
"Idiot! You forgot friction!"
So I cross out numbers written there
And hang my head in great dispair.
I am at a lost an panicked too
Because I don't know what to do!
I factor out "t", I integrate
But the mistakes do not abate
I feel like a failure and a fool...
What's life like in the business school?
But I see throught that confusing mist
After all, I am a physicist!
I know the movements of block and book
Using laws from Newton and Hooke
I know the bowling ball's energy
Based on it's squared velocity.
I now see myself years down the line
Where physics glory is all mine
The secret of dark matter I know
Having found the neutralino
My proof is so clear and bold
I win myself some Swedish gold!
But as I start my acceptance speech
I hear a harshly ringing screech
A startling thought to my mind does creep-
Oh my God, I've fallen asleep!
It's eight in the morn, not late at one
And my damned homework's still not done!
I stare at my paper with a frown
And jot some garbled numbers down
And before I can think anymore
It's in my bag; I'm out the door
And as I'm walking I pray my best
That problem won't be on the test!