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To: r-q-tek86; Fierce Allegiance
What you will learn in Engineering

1. You can study hard and still fail.

2. You can not study and pass.

3. Multiple choice does not mean easy.

4. There are no trains here.

5. Six exams can be written in 4 days, but it hurts.

6. You can skip all the classes, study for 15 minutes before the final, and still do better than an arts student in any arts class.

7. Pi to six decimal places.

8. Judging by fellow students, engineers are either drunks or geeks.

9. Everyone is someone else's wierdo.

10. Front-row people are weird.

11. Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

12. A 95.75% can be an A.

13. An 80.1% can be an A+.

14. You can kill your neighbors with a 9-volt battery.

8. Judging by fellow students, engineers are either drunks or geeks.

Drunks!

61 posted on 08/26/2005 7:03:09 AM PDT by JimWforBush (Alcohol - For the best times you'll never remember)
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To: JimWforBush
I take exception to some of these:

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

I went to a small college (24 civils, 14 mech and a handfule of electroweenies) and all of our professors were accomplished engineers before becoming professors. All were prior military (All the civil profs were in-country Viet Nam Era combat engineers).We had no non-english speaking TA's. One of my prof's was the on the team that came up with the cooling tower idea for the Alaska pipeline.

13. An 80.1% can be an A+.

A 37 can be the high grade in Thermodynamics class.

69 posted on 08/26/2005 7:12:09 AM PDT by ctlpdad (Liberals - weeds in the lawn of society.)
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To: JimWforBush
Everyone is someone else's wierdo.

I like this one...

70 posted on 08/26/2005 7:13:20 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Mind Like A Steel Trap - Rusty And Illegal In 37 States)
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To: JimWforBush

3.1415926

SEVEN decimal places!!!


80 posted on 08/26/2005 7:23:29 AM PDT by fredhead ("It is a good thing war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." General Robert E. Lee)
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To: JimWforBush

You Might Be an Engineer if:

1. Dilbert is your hero

2. Your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner

3. You can name 6 Star Trek episodes

4. The only jokes you receive are through e-mail

5. You want RAM memory for Christmas

6. You introduce your wife as mylady@home.wife

7. Your wristwatch has more computing power than a p-90

8. You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys

9. You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts

10. You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie

11. Your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place

12. You use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car

13. At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string

14. You window shop at Radio Shack

15. Your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies

16. You have “Dilbert” comics displayed anywhere in your work area

17. You carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that actually takes five minutes to run

18. You are convinced you can build a phazer out of your garage door opener and your camera's flash attachment

19. You don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is

20. You have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven

21. You know the direction the water swirls when you flush

22. You own “Official Star Trek” anything

23. You have ever taken the back off your TV just to see what's inside

24. A team of you and your co-workers have set out to modify the antenna on the radio in your work area for better reception

25. You are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor


26. You know how to take the cover off of your computer, and what size screw driver to use

27. You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance

28. You have ever purchased an electronic appliance “as-is”

29. You have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel and have seen most of the shows already

30. The salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions

31. You still own a slide rule and you know how to work it

32. The thought that a CD could refer to finance or music never enters your mind

33. Your father sat 2 inches in front of your family's first color TV with a magnifying lens to see how they made the colors, and you grew up thinking that was normal

34. You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires

35. You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal

36. You have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for

37. You need a checklist to turn on the TV

38. You have introduced your kids by the wrong name

39. Your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight

40. You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work

41. You see a good design and still have to change it

42. You can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary

43. You own a set of itty-bitty screw drivers, but you don't remember where they are

44. You are aware that computers are actually only good for playing games, but are afraid to say it out loud

45. You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting

46. The microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush up to the front to fix it

47. People groan at the party when you pick out the music

48. You have more toys than your Kids

49. You can't remember where you parked your car for the 3rd time this week

50. Your checkbook always balances

51. You've ever tried to repair a $5.00 radio

52. You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep

53. You have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage

54. Your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory

55. You know what http:/ stands for

56. Your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone

57. You thought the real heroes of “Apollo 13” were the mission controllers

58. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life

59. You spend more on your home computer than your car

60. You did the sound system for your senior prom

61. You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts

62. Your 4 basic food groups are: 1. Caffeine 2. Fat 3. Sugar 4. Chocolate


83 posted on 08/26/2005 7:27:50 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: JimWforBush; r-q-tek86; Fierce Allegiance
What you will learn in Engineering
1. You can study hard and still fail.

2. You can not study and pass.

3. Multiple choice does not mean easy.

4. There are no trains here.

5. Six exams can be written in 4 days, but it hurts.

6. You can skip all the classes, study for 15 minutes before the final, and still do better than an arts student in any arts class.

7. Pi to six decimal places.

8. Judging by fellow students, engineers are either drunks or geeks.

9. Everyone is someone else's wierdo.

10. Front-row people are weird.

11. Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

12. A 95.75% can be an A.

13. An 80.1% can be an A+.

14. You can kill your neighbors with a 9-volt battery.

15. A 15% can be the 3rd highest grade in the class.

}^)

401 posted on 08/26/2005 10:25:57 AM PDT by The SISU kid (Politicians are like Slinkies. Good for nothing. But you smile when you push them down the stairs)
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