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 ever 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 !) __________________________________ www.edsamail.com