Posted on 06/27/2018 8:30:06 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Three surgeons are discussing which patients are the easiest to operate on.
The first surgeon says that electrical engineers are the easiest to operate on; “Once you open them up, you just refer to the wiring diagram that’s inside.”
The second surgeon says that mechanical engineers are the easiest to operate on; “Once you open them up, you just refer to the blue print that’s inside.”
The third surgeon says that politicians are the easiest to operate on: “They’ve only got two moving parts, their mouth and their anus, and those are interchangeable.”
I understand the dream is fairly common to intelligent schooledpeople...i get them once or twice a year...why i dont know...i used to be anxious in the dream...but now i realize its a dream while im in the dream...and i let it play itself out..
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Indeed, this does happen......Have this sort of dream decades after school.
I’m an engineer, have been one for 33 years. Mr. Roo Roo thinks I have some engineer personality characteristics (OCD LOL, always trying to solve problems around the house, reading mathematics or physics articles for fun, etc).
But I’m aso a girl, so I love shoe and purse shopping. I’m also a floral designer, and I collect Waterford crystal and fine china. I am sort of an enigma to both my husband and male engineer coworkers LOL.
Never did learn to use the advanced scales. Last used it in anger was in a chemistry exam. I cursed as all the students with new electronic calculators were finishing the exam am I am still slamming away on the slide rule.
Got a HP25 programmable right after that debacle.
I’m an EE just a couple of years away from retirement, and I still have an occasional recurring dream.
It’s a Fields class, and I can pull up my grade with an outstanding score on my final.
Instead I oversleep and arrive 75 minutes late to a 90 minute exam.
Now with all us Engineers in the same place...
Has anyone taken the Myers–Briggs personality quiz?
I am an INTP, and was wondering about others who chose Engineering.
Waitaminuehere.
Bought mine in 1991, drowned in coffee in 2014. RIP.
I do run an emulator on my phone however.
The only thing that I use it for now is as a straight edge, or a ruler. It ought to be in a museum, next to an abacus.
I have my old (circa 1958) sly drool. I paid $20 for it; the best model cost $30 and I didn’t know the difference between the two at the time or I would have sprung for the extra $10. The better model had a more accurate square root function, for one thing, but the physical characteristics were also better. It would have been worth it - but when I asked the clerk about the value of the more expensive model, he didn’t know as much about slide rules as I did.I agree that it is useful only as a straight edge - but mostly, it’s a memento. I took a review course decades later, and systematically borrowed a company HP-35 calculator to do the homework. One day I needed to do homework for the class, but I forgot to borrow the calculator and so I fell back on the old slide rule. Or tried to; I found I just didn’t have the patience to keep track of the decimal point, and after a couple of tries I just allowed the homework to slide. It was that frustrating.
I don’t have occasion to do sophisticated calculations any more, but I love the idea that with a good spreadsheet my computer can crunch whatever numbers you got.
Your HS chemistry teacher was hyper conservative in teaching what he knew and had always taught; the writing was on the wall by then.
INTP
https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality
I’m an ENFP
https://www.16personalities.com/enfp-personality
Extroverted Nutty Flake
Very odd configuration for a Engineer type
I’m not an engineer but stil have dreams like that.
Over a calc course.
Wow. Thanks I have those same dreams.
My daughter went in to her calc exam, in which calculators were not permitted, carrying her father’s slide rule.
She asked the TA if the slide rule was acceptable. He looked at her and asked “You know how to use that?!”
And then said, *Well, the rules are no calculators and that’s not a calculator, so if you can use that, go ahead.*
There are four engineers traveling in a car; a mechanical engineer, a chemical engineer, an electrical engineer and a computer engineer. The car breaks down.
“Sounds to me as if the pistons have seized. We’ll have to strip down the engine before we can get the car working again”, says the mechanical engineer.
“Well”, says the chemical engineer, “it sounded to me as if the fuel might be contaminated. I think we should clear out the fuel system.”
“I thought it might be an grounding problem”, says the electrical engineer, “or maybe a faulty plug lead.”
They all turn to the computer engineer who has said nothing and say: “Well, what do you think?” “Ummm perhaps if we all get out of the car and get back in again?”
LOL.
Mr mm is an engineer and mm jr. is a network engineer.
Both girls are basically, too, but have their degrees in other STEM fields.
I’m really the only non engineer in the family with my meteorology degree.
Our dinnertime conversations sounds a lot like Big Bang Theory (the older cleaner version)
I still have a working HP15C from the mid 80's. If you had the smarts to figure out how to use it, you should have been able to pass many STEM classes.
My wife said: “Please go to the store and buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six.” I came back with 6 cartons of milk She said, “why in the hell did you buy six cartons of milk”
“They had eggs”
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