"In theory"

Thus far every hands-on creation I've conceptualized has failed dismally. Because despite every speculation that it would work "in theory", i'm gradually begun to realize that things are different in practice.

Today's challenge was a tower made out of three pieces of paper and about 50cm of masking tape. We were told to build the tallest structure we could. So we came up with the idea of a "cootie catcher" as the base and through ~rigorous~ testing we realized that we can maximize the height of the rolled up news paper if we cut one sheet of our square news paper into 4 separate squares and then fold it diagonally. But as we assembled our structure we realized we did not have nearly enough tape to tape the long stick of newspaper through the center of our cootie catcher, and in fact, the cootie catcher did not weight enough to be the center of gravity, hence our dismal failure.


"in theory" it seemed like a fool-proof plan.
i should just seek a career in janitorial studies or smth////

haiku;

Things are much better
in theoretical form.
Things like time travel.