I ran out of space in the header, so I repeat it here:

"You know Captain, every year of my life I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and the best should affix our attention on the good and the beautiful...if we just take the time to look at it."

Is that not the best crappy sci-fi movie quote EVER?

Another quote is actually the reason why I'm posting this. I'm catching up on reading for my reactor design class and am reminded once again why I feel much affection for this book. Each chapter begins with a quote, somewhat like Dune. Chapter six (Multiple Reactions) begins with this one:

"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's your opposition." -Nick Seitz.

I don't know why this quote is relevant, honestly, but damn I would like to meet this author. XD

A friend of mine told me that there's a Facebook group called "My GPA is Lower than Yours because I'm in Engineering." Seeing as how I avoid facebook like the plague, I have not witnessed it. But I believe it.

So far the only thing I understand in my Thermo class is that partial differentials suck rancid ass. As in, "this is what we'll make you do in Hell after you kill yourself in desperation to escape Thermo". (No, I'm not quite that desperate. But I still harbor undying hatred for this material. I really do.)

So as long as we're on the subject, I"m going to be a total geek and post some quotes I've been gathering since the start of the school year. Not all of them are engineering related, but hey, we're not all perfect.

These quotes were gathered with the help of some other classmates, mostly topazina. Credit is given where credit is due, after all.

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Chem 455: Physical Chemistry and the Schrodinger Equation

Li: So we have this cookie...
Class: *GROAN*
Note: If you don't get this, you haven't read The Quantum Cookie

Ginger: "You are seducing me with your logic."

Li: We have this box, and there's nothing inside it and we can't see into it. So now we open it up, put a cat in there and close it again. How do we know if the cat's alive or dead?
Someone: Well, if we wait long enough, we don't have to.
Any of you who haven't taken a lot of chemisty or physics may find this Wikipedia Article helpful.


Chem E 310: Material and Energy Balances

Holt: Now how does energy get in the system?
Class: *no answer*
Holt: It crawls in very quietly.

Holt: If you’re a process engineer, what do you really want to know?
Me: How much they’ll pay me to do this?

Holt: So once the temperature gets high, we need to be concerned about the
water becoming corrosive...
Student: Why does water become corrosive at high temperature?
Holt: Because at high temperatures, water becomes corrosive.
Student: ... but... why...
Class: *headdesk*

Holt: Do these things actually exist, or am I just having mathematical fun?


Special section: Holt's language bungles

Holt: All this confusion can cause a great deal of conversion.
When we were learning how to use percent conversion values.

Holt: So here we have a piece of liquid...

Holt: If you get all your i’s crossed, and your t’s...you’ll be ok.

Holt: Term by term, what are this?

Holt: Ref er ing…what’s this ref ERing?
I swear to God he tried like 3 times to pronounce "referring" and couldn't do it.


Chem E 326: Thermodynamics II

Dr. B: I want to get everyone's names right the first time, because you know what I've found? It's hard to unlearn things once you've learned them. For instance, you guys think that's Rault's Law works.
Class: *nervous laugh*
Dr. B: Seriously. The first six weeks of this course are spent learning that Rault's law is crap.
Class: o.o eep

Dr. B: You look skeptical, Miss Yuan.
Cindy: I was just very, very interested.

Dr. B: If we knew the perfect Equation of State, like, from the Devine Being, that's all we'd need. But since we don't, we have to make one up. That's why we need 42 variables to describe water. The Devine Being just went, "water, there it is. Now I'm off to go write a book."

Dr. B: The only way we're going to see the overhead if I turn out all the lights...
Volunteer: *turns out the lights*
Dr. B: Ok, now could someone who's still awake go open the blinds?

Dr. B: What a lot of people don't know is that there were two competing free energy equations. There was Gibbs and this other guy, and they both came up with the stuff at the same time. Gibbs is the one we use today because he just had a better PR group.

Dr. B: There are a lot of chemicals that unfortunately you don't have data for. Your book has a couple. Ammonnia's a pretty popular chemical, but not in the top 40 hit parade. So we gotta go make its stuff up."

Dr. B: We'd only need a small number of variables, if we were modeling the universe."
Student: I want a universe chart. Everything all on one poster I can put up on my wall. Sort of like the periodic table, only better.


Study time quotes

Ursula (I think): Intellectual leap...wow.

Me: Having no faith in numbers is basically what being an engineer is.

Jacquie: That's so cute.
Me (sarcastic): Yeah, that's how us engineers get away with not doing our homework. Being cute.

"Remember the analog"
This is scribbled in my notes, but I don't know the context

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More quotes forthcoming, I imagine.

Ok, I don't think I posted this last year, and it's a bit old, but for any of you who HAVEN'T already seen this video: Someone Who has WAAAY too Much Time

P.S. Because of the high compression, it looks like this video was stop-sequenced together. Actually it's not. See the proof here: Status: True

Oh noes!

*runs away*

I don't care who on my friends list I will potentially alienate. I laughed my ass off.

*snrk*