Posted on 06/27/2018 8:30:06 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
How can you spot an extroverted engineer?
He looks at the other person’s shoes.
Size matters. Back in the old days, when I was a college freshman, you could always spot an engineer by the size of their....slide rule.
LOL
I am an engineer, and I resemble that!
My Father was in the 208th Engineer Combat Battalion. Their CO was Lt. Col. Leslie O. Scott.
A guy here on FR sent me an email with their entire official history in WWII.
Reading some of the instructions Col. Scott gave his officers it was clear that he was a true engineer. Not just some guy who had worked in construction.
I also noticed in Gen. Schwartzkopf’s biography that the highest ranking grads of West Point get their choice of assignments. He said they usually choose the Engineers, tho he chose infantry.
That’s my personal favorite engineer joke. The ones in the OP are also good.
Don’t even try.
You are only a Z away. I believe the "Twin Bridges" over The I-87 Northway near Albany, NY crossing The Mohawk River (Erie Canal) were also designed by this person.
hehe. I have had dreams like this. Like (for some reason) I am back in college and I know I am late for class but cant recall where the class is, or I missed the last several weeks or cant find my class schedule...Doctor, what does it all mean? :)
Variant (Americanized) spelling. Is the basis of my FReeper name, since I am of Polish decent and an engineer.
I do have this dream occasionally. Going to my final exam, but never having attended the class! I’m a retired civil engineer!
This is way too true. I’ve had that dream often, probably at least once in the last year.
My kid just graduated as an astronautical engineer from a small private engineering university, a total geek school.
These guys all quivered and shook when they had to take a fine arts class.
It was pretty funny.
I am an engineer, and I resemble that!.
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Just for the record I’m an engineer too. UCLA. Best decision I ever made.
Lots of engineers and scientists here on Good Old FR.
I literally have my slide rule from high school 57-61 in the drawer next to my left hand. And now that you mentioned it I wonder if I should start a thread about who has the oldest physical whatever still with them. My slide rule might be up there??? Just wunderin’.
Mine seem to come far more often than that. For me, almost weekly, I have the same type of dream ...
See, after I graduated high school, I attended the Naval Academy for two years, leaving after a nervous breakdown and several months in Bethesda.
My dreams center around being told, 45 years later, that I have to go back to Annapolis and finish off my last two years ... one of these nights, I'm going to have a heart attack while taking the PT test in my dreams ...
How come civil engineers aren’t?
I have had all the dream comments from this post.
What is going on.
In one I am trying to get into a class with the seating going up sides from the floor. I have no idea what the class subject is but I know I need the course to graduate.
Egad.
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