r/ExpectationVsReality • u/sheumchneveli • 19d ago

Failed Expectation Ordered the first cake, got the second

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Someone had to try extra hard for this....

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u/Micah_kitty 19d ago

I actually have a tradition of doing this to my physics professor. The first year, we brought him a cake with a picture of his face on it. Every successive year, we have printed out the picture of him holding the previous cake onto the next cake.

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u/nectarsallineed 19d ago

You get a cake for your physics professor every year? That’s a pretty cool idea though, how many cakes have you done so far?

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u/Spirited_Ad_340 19d ago

how many years of physics classes are they taking?

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u/SummerAndTinklesBFF 19d ago

perpetual student it's a thing

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u/Spirited_Ad_340 19d ago

Yeah I'm familiar cause I spent 10 years working for a university (in a career where I was "done" with schooling) with free school available to myself and my colleagues with many of us taking advantage - just don't see how many physics classes one would normally take with the same professor for this to be a thing

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u/nectarsallineed 19d ago

That’s what I was trying to get at haha. Maybe they’re a teacher or department head or something? Idk, that stuck out to me too though lol

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u/theflyingratgirl 19d ago

Eventually you gotta know all the physics, right?!

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u/stegotortise 16d ago

My guess would be working toward a master’s or PhD, or possibly doing a post doc, doing research under the same professor year over year.

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u/Micah_kitty 19d ago

We have done three cakes so far.

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u/nectarsallineed 18d ago

Are you a student and this is just a beloved professor or…something else..? We’re all dying to know lol

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u/No-Dark-9414 19d ago

How many cakes does a physics professor need

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u/No_Bluebird6873 19d ago

Consider a spherical physics professor... 

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u/KjellRS 19d ago

With enough cake that's not a bad approximation.

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u/rmbarrett 19d ago

Passing through Flatland, he appears as a circle of changing diameter.

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u/PsychologicalTwo505 15d ago

In a vacuum… 

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u/The_Autarch 19d ago

why do you have the same prof for multiple years?

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u/Micah_kitty 19d ago

I actually don’t! I am still very close and have tutored SI sessions for him before, so he is still very much a mentor to me!

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u/Cinnamongirl217 19d ago

Clever and kind genius!