A String Having a Stressful Day
A relaxed, wiggly string a week before a deadline becomes a tense, perfectly straight line the day before. A line is just a string having a stressful day.
Transcript
[1 week before a deadline: a relaxed, wiggly curve with sleepy eyes] [1 day before a deadline: a perfectly straight, wide-eyed line] Caption: "A line is just a string having a stressful day."
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-13-a-string-having-a-stressful-day/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)