Programming101 Memes

That moment when the professor announces "Now, we are going to start C++" and you can practically feel your remaining sanity evaporating. Those innocent students have no idea they're about to enter a world where memory management errors will haunt their dreams and segmentation faults become their new best friends. Ten weeks from now, half the class will be questioning their life choices while debugging pointer arithmetic at 3 AM. The other half? Already updating their LinkedIn to "proficient in HTML."

When the assignment asks for a pattern algorithm but you just hardcode each line instead. The beauty of this solution is its brutal efficiency - why waste time figuring out the mathematical relationship when you can just printf() your way to freedom? The student running from the teacher represents that brief moment of panic when you realize your laziness might actually get you in trouble. But hey, it works. The code compiles. Ship it.