The top 0001 0100 signs that you might be an engineer….
- You have no life and you can prove it mathematically.
- You’ve actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
- You chuckle whenever someone says “centrifugal force”.
- You know vector calculus but you can’t remember how to do long division.
- The sales people at the local computer store can”t answer any of your questions.
- You bring a computer manual / technical journal as vacation reading.
- You know the glass is neither half full nor half empty; it’s simply twice as big as it needs to be.
- You think in “math”.
- You consider ANY non-engineering course “easy”.
- You can translate English into Binary.
- A three year old asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory.
- It is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
- At an air show you know how fast the skydivers are falling.
- You can recite the value of pi to one hundred digits.
- You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
- The “fun” center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.
- You carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that only takes five minutes to run.
- You can type 70 words per minute but you can’t read your own handwriting.
- You assume that a “horse” is a “sphere” in order to make the math easier.
- You understood more than five of these jokes.

December 1, 2007 at 3:44 pm |
oh my godnes, I am an engineer…(after read item no 20).
December 2, 2007 at 4:43 pm |
I like it. Or do I? Does this completely describe my pathetic life? Most do. Except for number three. If one does a coordinate transformation from cartesian to cylindrical coordinates, the centrifugal force shows up. But whatever. I just thoroughly proved why I’m an engineer.
December 2, 2007 at 5:32 pm |
I’ll give you that one Tony. But most people don’t know what coordinate substitution is, much less the difference between an inertial reference frame and a rotating reference frame. Some reading about centrifugal force for any other fellow nerds coming through.
December 7, 2007 at 2:20 am |
Holy Crap! I finally found a reason to be glad that I wipe ass for a living.
September 26, 2008 at 1:40 am |
thats it, brother