College Memes

The eternal cycle of student programmer existence. During breaks, we're all Renaissance artists crafting pristine memes with proper syntax and original concepts. Then the semester starts, and suddenly we're posting half-baked "works on my machine" screenshots at 2AM between debugging sessions and existential crises. Nothing says "I have three assignments due tomorrow" like a poorly cropped Stack Overflow screenshot with the title "haha relatable."

The classic education bait-and-switch in three acts: First panel: An automatic transmission. "Here's a nice, simple abstraction with a few options. Just put it in drive and go!" Second panel: A manual transmission with extra steps. "Now go home and figure out how to drive stick while also doing donuts in a parking lot." Third panel: A literal spacecraft cockpit. "For your final exam, please land this Apollo module on the moon with half the fuel and a critical systems failure. You have 90 minutes. No pressure." Computer science degrees should come with trauma counseling.

Why do the assigned task when you can build an entire automated system to avoid it? Nothing says "CS student energy" like spending 10x the effort to hack a solution rather than just watching those damn videos. College Board probably wanted to teach API integration anyway, right? The real lesson was the GraphQL queries we wrote along the way. Every developer knows that automating a 1-hour task with a 10-hour solution is the true mark of genius. It's not laziness—it's efficiency at scale . Future you will thank present you... maybe.