Thursday, March 12, 2009

You Might Be An Engineer If...

· You have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
· You enjoy pain.
· You know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.
· You chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force".
· You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
· It is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
· You frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver".
· You know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
· You think in "math".
· You've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
· You hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function.
· You have a pet named after a scientist.
· You laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
· The Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger's Cat
experiment.
· You can translate English into Binary.
· You can't remember what's behind the door in the engineering building which says "Exit".
· You have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab.
· You are completely addicted to caffeine.
· You avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.
· You consider ANY non-engineering course "easy".
· When your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe.
· The "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.
· You'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.
· The blinking 12:00 on someone's VCR draws you in like a tractor beam to fix it.
· You bring a computer manual / technical journal as vacation reading.
· The salesperson at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
· You can't help eavesdropping in computer stores... and correcting the salesperson.
· You're in line for the guillotine... it stops working properly... and you offer to fix it.
· You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards to see how they do the special effects.
· You have any "Dilbert" comics displayed in your work area.
· You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
· You have never backed up your hard drive.
· You haven't bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married.
· You spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring.
· You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep.
· You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon
· You've calculated how much you make per second.
· Your favorite James Bond character is "Q," the guy who makes the gadgets.
· You understood more than five of these jokes.
· You make a copy of this list, and post it on your door (or your home page !)

Again...Courtesy of http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Engineer.html