You Might be an Engineer if...


... Choosing to buy flowers for your wife or upgrading your RAM is a moral dilemma.
... You take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.
... The salespeople at the local computer store can't answer any of your questions.
... At an air show you know how fast the skydivers are falling.
... You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
... You can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting.
... You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
... You sit backwards on the Disneyland rides to see how they do the special effects.
... You have saved every power cord from all your broken appliances.
... You know what http:// stands for.
... You look forward to Christmas so you can put the kids' toys together.
... You see a good design and still have to change it.
... You spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring.
... You still own a slide rule and know how to use it.
... You window shop at Radio Shack.
... Your laptop computer costs more than your car.
... Your wife/husband hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work.
... You've already calculated how much you make per second.
... You've tried to repair a $5 radio.
... You know the second law of thermodynamics but not your shirt size.
... You repair your own cameras, telephones, televisions, and automatic transmissions.
... You say "it's 70 degrees Fahrenheit, 21 degrees Celsius, and 294 Kelvin."
... You make four sets of drawings and seven revisions before making a bird bath.
... You can't remember where you parked your car for the 3rd time this week.
... Your briefcase contains a screwdriver, a copy of "Quantum Physics" and half a sandwich.
... Your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone.
... You ever burned down the school gym with your Science Fair project.
... You can translate English to Binary.
... Your hero is Dilbert.
... Your IQ is more than your weight.
... You can name 6 Star Trek episodes.
... You know the direction the water swirls when you flush.
... You have ever taken the back off of your TV just to see what's inside.
... You have ever purchased an electronic appliance "as is".
... You thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers.
... You have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage.
... You make a hard copy of this list, and post it on your door.

You Might be a Computer Engineering Student if...


... If you have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
... If you enjoy pain.
... If you know vector calculus, but you can't remember how to do long division.
... If you chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force."
... If you've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
... If when you look in a mirror, you see an engineering major.
... If it is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
... If you frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver."
... If you always do homework on Friday nights.
... If you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.
... If you think in "math."
... If you've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
... If you hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function.
... If you have a pet named after a scientist.
... If you laugh at jokes about mathematicians.
... If the Humane Society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schroedinger's Cat experiment.
... If you can translate English into Binary.
... If you can't remember what's behind the door in the science building which says "Exit."
... If you have to bring a jacket with you, in the middle of summer, because there's a wind-chill factor in the lab.
... If you are completely addicted to caffeine.
... If you avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the universe.
... If you consider ANY non-science course "easy."
... If 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.
... If the "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.
... If you'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.
... If you understood more than five of these indicators.
... If you make a hard copy of this list and post it on your door.
... If you think it might be a neat idea to send this message to all of your friends in the form of e-mail.