Met-gala Memes

Naomi Osaka showed up to the Met Gala wearing the CLRS algorithms textbook as high fashion, and honestly? She's not wrong. The dress perfectly mirrors the cover of Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein's legendary tome—those abstract red geometric shapes that have haunted CS students since 1990. The irony is beautiful: a book that represents pure logical complexity transformed into artistic complexity. Both are intimidating, both make you question your life choices, and both somehow manage to be elegant despite causing existential dread. The red shapes on her outfit? That's basically what your brain looks like trying to understand dynamic programming at 2 AM before the final. Fashion meets O(n log n), and I'm here for it. If only studying algorithms could be this glamorous instead of crying over balanced tree rotations in a dimly lit library.