Attention all engineers!

[telkanuru]

I know you're out there! observe this link!

http://web.mit.edu/mrbonk/www/engineers.html

My question is how does one memorize 30-odd verses while inebriated?

[lochinvar]

Speaking as an engineer, I think they have a somewhat inflated opinion of themselves...

The Optimist says, "The glass is half full!"
The Pessimist says, "The glass is half empty!"
The Engineer says, "The glass is twice as big as it needs to be in this application."

[mollusk]

I read the link. Methinks that MIT students can simultaneously have inferiority and superiority complexes. I've known many MIT students and I'm not surprised.

There are many factual errors in there. Firstly, not all engineers are socially maladjusted geeks. Most of us are, but not all of us.

[cornflower]

But get off of me you son of a B, if you're from MIT!

Huh?! They won't say 'b!tch' but they'll say:

Fornication, Copulation, Penetration, ****
Rim job, reem job, nose job, blow job, cunnilingus, Suck
Eating beaver, dipping wick, taking it up the rear;
these words don't mean a thing to me cause I'm an engineer

Whatever.

[mollusk]

"B" rhymes with "MIT" while "*****" doesn't.

Also it scans better with "B" instead.

[Soldier]

Originally Posted by mollusk

I read the link. Methinks that MIT students can simultaneously have inferiority and superiority complexes. I've known many MIT students and I'm not surprised.

There are many factual errors in there. Firstly, not all engineers are socially maladjusted geeks. Most of us are, but not all of us.

Of course not. Most cadets, for example, are socially maladjusted jocks.

[civiltech]

This stuff is pretty common!

The engineers in many Universities (and colleges) have almost a group mentality. It is not necessarily a bad thing, but makes you take pride in your program, your future profession and fact you can impress girls with calculus and trig

At Lakehead University, they have t-shirts made up every year since I can remember with ERTW printed on the front, and "Friends don't let friends take Arts" on the back.

(ERTW is known throughout the educational institutes as ENGINEERS RULE THE WORLD!)

Inflated egos maybe....but I think you could argue they deserve it for building, and making safe the world.....

All in good fun.

[telkanuru]

Originally Posted by lochinvar

Speaking as an engineer, I think they have a somewhat inflated opinion of themselves...

The Optimist says, "The glass is half full!"
The Pessimist says, "The glass is half empty!"
The Engineer says, "The glass is twice as big as it needs to be in this application."

You mean "The glass has a safety factor of 2."

[lochinvar]

Originally Posted by civiltech

This stuff is pretty common!

The engineers in many Universities (and colleges) have almost a group mentality. It is not necessarily a bad thing, but makes you take pride in your program, your future profession and fact you can impress girls with calculus and trig

Impress girls with calculus and trig??
Impress, maybe--but I know of no one who has managed to finesse that into a date. "Intimidate" might be a better word...

Inflated egos maybe....but I think you could argue they deserve it for building, and making safe the world.....

Making safe? The old joke runs thusly:
Q: What is the difference between electrical and civil engineers?
A: Electrical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets. (Bold added.)

[lochinvar]

Originally Posted by telkanuru

You mean "The glass has a safety factor of 2."

Precisely!

[Soldier]

Originally Posted by lochinvar

Impress girls with calculus and trig??
Impress, maybe--but I know of no one who has managed to finesse that into a date. "Intimidate" might be a better word...

"Hey...how 'bout I help you study for that test...over dinner...then, if you're really stuck, maybe we could take the books back to my place and pull an all-nighter..."

Originally Posted by lochinvar

Making safe? The old joke runs thusly:
Q: What is the difference between electrical and civil engineers?
A: Electrical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets. (Bold added.)

Nah, you just build circuits. It's the mechanical and systems engineers who build the weapons.

To quote my Civil Engineering instructor, an Army Combat Engineer:

Originally Posted by Cpt Holland

I am a combat engineer. There's no real correlation to Air Force civil engineering. Yes, you're very good at building things. But if you want to know how to implode a building with a bag of flour and some explosives, come talk to me. If you want to strap a rocket up with C4, fly it over a minefield, and blow it up to detonate the mines, come talk to me. Just don't ask me to build anything; I can't.

And another valuable quote from somebody else in the same class:
"On a scale of one to four thousand, I think that's a really bad idea."

[telkanuru]

General Theory of Circut Design: All integrated circuts (ICs) are driven by magic smoke that is contained within the chip. If one sees the magic smoke issuing from the chip, it has died. DON'T LET THE MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPE!

Thanks, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all night. No reall, my bed's 3 feet from the computer

[jeff]

Originally Posted by lochinvar

Precisely!

Precisely, plus or minus experimental error

[Soldier]

Originally Posted by telkanuru

General Theory of Circut Design: All integrated circuts (ICs) are driven by magic smoke that is contained within the chip. If one sees the magic smoke issuing from the chip, it has died. DON'T LET THE MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPE!

Thanks, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all night. No reall, my bed's 3 feet from the computer

Oh, and never touch the pretty dancing blue light. It hurts. A lot.

[telkanuru]

It's really fun to weild with a 400VDC power supply and a screwdriver