You Know You're An Engineer If....

Ha, So one of my friends started a facebook group about being an engineer and I thought I'd share some of the sadly true humor:

You Know You're an Engineer If...

1. You know you are an engineer if you have to take the class "Math as a second language"

2. You know you are an engineer if your textbooks often become pillows

3. you know you are an engineer if when watching a magic act you try to figure out how it works because its your job and not just because you're curious

4. you know you are an engineer if you have ever seen a second order nonhomogenous differential equation

5. you know you are an engineer if you end the phrase "If I'm not busy" with a sarcastic laugh of no hope

6. you know you are an engineer if more things in your apartment are laying around in pieces than put together

7. you know you are an engineer if you consider air resistance, drag, and material efficiency when building a paper airplane

8. you know you are an engineer if you watch a firework show and try to name the metals that are burning to produce the colors

9. you know you are an engineer if you fix things that aren't broken

10. you know you are an engineer if the numbers 1.414 and .707 look familiar

11. you know you are an engineer if you know more geometric formulas than you have friends

12. you know you are an engineer if you flash the right hand rule like it is your gang sign

13. you know you are an engineer if everytime your roomate sees you, you are doing work and every time you see them they are sleeping

14. you know you are an engineer if you drink more coffee than water

15. you know you are an engineer if you own a videogame system that hasn't been turned on all semester

16. you know you are an engineer if you can't turn your videogame system on not only because you don't have time but because you took it apart a month ago and haven't had a chance to put it back together

17. you know you are an engineer if you have used lab time to recreate or fix things that are old and broken

18. you know you are an engineer if you stay online to check email when you know you should be working and justify it by saying that you could be missing important information

19. you know you are an engineer if there are more empty seats in your class than girls

20. you know you are an engineer if you are most productive between 12 and 3 am

21. you know you are an engineer if you know constants, conversions and orders of magnitude better than you know addition and subtraction

22. you know you are an engineer if you always end up needing to schedule classes for you major between 8 am and 9 am

23. you know you are an engineer if you use engineering paper instead of notebook paper (even in english class)

24. you know you are an engineer if you always end up teaching yourself from the book because you can't understand your professor's "english"

25. you know you are an engineer if three hours of sleep is a "good" night

26. you know you are an engineer if it takes longer to spell check your paper than it took to write it in the first place

If you have any more feel free to post comments and keep the list going. I became an engineer because I feel there is a lot that needs to be done to improve our world. I love taking things apart and fixing them and building things and I am a big fan of transportation. As engineers, there is a lot of new responsibility coming up that requires consideration of renewable resources, alternative fuels, environmental and economic issues, cost and materials and just a world of different things that go into designing the "best" solution to a problem. I want to focus some of my blogs later on these ideas and if you have any concerns or relevant current event topics feel free to comment with them and I'd be happy to look into it ... "If I'm not busy" hah

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