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Physics started the first quarter, and it was just a rehash of high school physics from the year before. No big deal, honestly. The lab writeups were the hardest part, as I was trying to be a perfectionist. In fact, it was lab writeups that were my undoing, eventually moving over to CSc.


Ed, did you have Price for thermo 303? I knew upperclassmen that were hoping he’d die before they had to complete that class to graduate. Probably the strangest class I had there.

My first university physics course assumed calculus. High school physics assuming a calculus prerequisite I would believe to be uncommon.

right answer!

At the risk of appearing insensitive, I will note I live in the mountains of Arizona, not suburban Florida.

Good luck with that.....

I sure hope Vagisil came with it, what a fugging tool.

There are those who graduate with an engineering degree and then there are those who graduate with the same degree and then go on to BECOME Engineers.
It’s as simple as that

Hilarious. The people who couldn’t cut it as an engineer talking about how dumb engineers are.

Metallurgical Engineer here. I am in the steel industry and its crazy how many new Engineers come in and the "Idea Fairy" put an idea in their mind, they bring it up to an operator who tells them it wont work for one reason or another. Then they make the trial take place and they Screw up a 100 ton heat of steel. The operators have no reason to make the idea work and wont help you at all if you force it on them. if you actually spend time with them, ask them what they need, explain your problem, find a solution together and implement the solution then the operators have some skin in the game and want to see it work.

I grew up with a mechanic for a dad and a machinist for an uncle. When I told them I wanted to be an engineer they almost disowned me.

Yet I still do more shooting and outdoor pursuits than your lazy ass.

Amazing, ain't it?

Maybe so but my workbench is pretty sweet.

And I built it.

Florida Man,

Is Uncle Sugar paying for caps you're busting?

Cleaning the pool in the backyard isn't considered an outdoor pursuit in Arizona.

(although I'm sure your high school buddies in Illinois think it is).

Carry on, and keep us updated with the great indoors.

Sycamore

Colleges crank out thousands of engineers, but a small percentage of them make careers of designing new things that get built.

My contention is that engineers are born and not made... the reason almost all engineers designing are white males or asian males.


I was at a conference of high frequency power design engineers with 1000 engineers that traveled to Wash DC... there was not much diversity.

I never knew there were so many engineers until I started competitive shooting. I don't think you'll find a greater concentration of engineers anywhere else.

So much for the myth of dumb hicks and guns.

My uncle married a gal whose dad worked fr Rickover. He said that when he went into Rickover's office for his first interview with him, he was told to sit in a chair placed before the Admiral's desk. He sat in the chair and found that the front legs of the chair had been cut so that the chair felt like it was trying to pitch you out on your face. I suppose it was meant to make the interviewee feel uncomfortable or some such. Interesting interviewing technique.

Sounds like a few engineers on this site got their manginas a bit tweaked over this thread... I get the feeling a lot of them think becoming an engineer is right up there with the Greatest Quest known to man and only a select few can make the grade from their comments. Relax guys, any worthwhile endeavor takes a lot of effort and discipline to accomplish and engineering isn't the only difficult field represented on this site....

I’ve heard the same from some nuke guys.

My reading comprehension almost as bad as my writing, but did I just read that 98% of "y'all" are simpletons?

Lol. Now look who’s mangina got bent.

Anyone who has worked in any industry has stories of great engineers, good engineers, and simpletons with a degree.

In our company, all the great engineers go on to become factory managers. Then they get to learn how to manage a workforce. Our best engineers were popular with the production crews as they spent time on the floor and asked for input from the operators.

Our worst always made it obvious that they were far too smart to hear an operator.

I was on the loading dock one day when "Special Ed" the engineer came in. The loading dock door was shut and locked, but Ed pushed the button to elevate the hydraulic leveling plate under the door anyway.

All I could do was stand and watch as he physically ripped the locks out of the Overhead Door. Then he lowered the dock plate, pulled the door down closed, and did it again.

My supervisor about lost his mind when I called and requested a service call from Overhead Door.

Our present plant manager is a gorgeous 29 year old blond lady originally hired as a packaging engineer. She is smart as a whip. Listens to experienced operators. Gives clear instructions. Gets in and gets her hands dirty. And brooks no nonsense.

But she is California born and raised. She will not let us kill pigeons, feral cats, or rock chucks on the property anymore. Ah Hell, nobody is perfect.

But she is about as close as I have worked for in forty some years at this location.

Assuming something I didn't imply bone head? I surely wasn't talking about myself, but a simpleton like you might assume that...