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So yea, went and played some pool with a friend tonight. I got there a little before she did, she saw that I brought my own cue, and said that I was probably good then, I told her that no I wasn't good and the cue was a gift. First game, I break, then I proceed to run the table, much to her amazement and my own as well. Best pool I've played in quite awhile.

Are you truly saying that you want to goto school for 16 years to use your hands for a living and not your brain?? I actually don't understand your point of view; however, I will agree that I find it really strange that people can have "mechanical minds" and not be mechanical. Hell, I don't know what the fudge I want Sean. If I could use both hands and brain I think I could enjoy whatever I'm doing.

Sounds like you want to be a technologist... A what?? Do tell.

That was the hardest pucking test I have ever taken in my entire life. Period. It was so bad I ended up with one part of a problem that had a bajillion sines and cosines in it because I messed up hardcore the next line of the problem looked exactly like this "=I f'ed up, bad" I want alcohol, but I'm out of beer, and last time I had a bad test and went with hard alcohol, I ended up with alcohol poisoning.

Hmm, Calc III test in 40min. Not going to be pretty.

I suppose so. Something that all engineering people are good at, disagreeing.

Its the fact that I expect a person with a degree/working on one to be knowledgeable (at least a little bit) in the entire field of engineering, not just their own little niche.

I think a lot of things are being missed in a regular book education for engineering. They are missing stuff that you can only learn by hands on work, you can't teach welding out of a book, you can't teach work site knowledge/safety out of a book. It is something that is overlooked to me that is a real necessity. I'm not real sure on the correct way to voice my distaste of the actual mechanical knowledge of a lot of the engineering students. It might be that since I grew up in a very mechanical, hands on, family where we fix everything ourselves and had to learn how to take things apart, fix 'em, put them back together, etc, that puts me on a different playing field a lot of the other students.

I second the motion. Though given the option to test out I probably wouldn't You have to give the option to test out, because you would have someone like me who would sit in the back, get bored, and cause problems.

If an Electrical Engineering student can weld better than about 95% of the other engineering majors that I've seen in this school, thats bad.

I think they should make a shop safety, basic shop tools, intro to building chit, and welding classes mandatory for all engineering majors. The option to test out would be available, and it would be a no studying hands on only test. Come up with something and they have 2hrs to build it.

The number of engineering majors I find that don't know the first thing about building/welding/fabrication is amazing.

they're engineers, it's not that surprising Sad, but yet true.

One of the intro engineering classes they build balsa wood towers, and they have to break them where I work so I get to see some of them. My god, I swear some of these people are complete idiots when it comes to building something.

Indeed. Oh, go check out Lord Baccus new thread.

1. No 2. No 3. No Not to sound like a hardass, but that is the worst definition of SQ I think I have ever heard. Honestly

Too bad they probably had it on MTV or the like, right? Nope, ESPN HD

Beer pong is the worlds greatest study break. Friend called me up while studying and asked if I wanted to go, so I said sure. I walk in to the peoples basement where we went and they had a 67" Samsung plasma. Oh my god that was a gorgeous looking TV, absolutely huge though.

What is your major? EE hope it only takes me 5 I switched majors around my freshman year so thats why its taking me 6.

What is your major? EE

Ok, so I finally watched 2 girls 1 cup... I had no idea what it was other than a nasty video... Seeing it doesn't bother me, I just wonder who the fudge is messed up that much to do that.

4? Try more like 6.

pot? LOL, not me though.

My god, this calc test is going to positively murder me.