You might be an engineer if ...

You might be an engineer if ...

you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie
you've actually ever used every single function on your graphing calculator.
your wrist watch has more computing power than a p-90
your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner
your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies.
your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies
your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place
your favorite james bond character is "Q".
your family haven't the foggiest idea what you do at work.
you'll assume that a horse is a sphere in order to make the math easier.
you window shop at radio shack
you want ram memory for christmas
you use a cad package to design your son's pine wood derby car
you understood more than five of these indicators.
you think the value of a book is directly proportionate to the amount of tables, charts and graphs it contains.
you think the real heroes of "apollo 13" were the mission controllers.
you think it might be a neat idea to send this message to all of your friends in the form of email.
you think in math.
you think "cuddling" is simply an unproductive application of heat exchange
you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.
you still own a slide rule and you know how to use it.
you see a good design and still have to change it.
you own "official star trek" anything
you might be an engineer if ...
you make four sets of drawings (with seven revisions) before making a bird bath.
you make a hard copy of this list and post it on your office door.
you look forward to christmas only to put together the kids' toys
you laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
you know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division.
you know the glass is neither half full nor half empty; it's simply twice as big as it needs to be. (from mduffin3)
you know the direction the water swirls when you flush
you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
you introduce your wife as "mylady@home.wife"
you hesitate to look at something because you don t want to break down its wave function.
you have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts
you have trouble writing anything unless the paper has horizontal and vertical lines.
you have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there s a wind-chill factor in the lab.
you have owned a calculator with no equal key and know what rpn stands for.
you have no life and can prove it mathematically.
you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven.
you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven
you have ever taken the back off your tv just to see what's inside
you have a pet named after a scientist.
you have "dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area
you frequently whistle the theme song to 'macgyver.'
you enjoy pain.
you don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is
you consider any non-science course easy.
you chuckle whenever anyone says 'centrifugal force.
you carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that actually takes five minutes to run
you can't remember what's behind the door in the science building which says "exit"
you can translate english into binary.
you can name 6 star trek episodes
you avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.
you are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor
you are convinced you can build a phazer out of your garage door opener and your camera's flash attachment
you are completely addicted to caffeine.
you are better with a karnaugh map than you are with a street map.
you always do homework on friday nights.
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.
when you look in the mirror, you see an engineering major.
the only jokes you receive are through e-mail
the humane society has had you arrested because you actually performed the schroedinger s cat experiment.
the fun center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.
it is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
in college you thought spring break was metal fatigue failure.
dilbert is your hero
at christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string
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