Saturday, December 3, 2005

   Mines Quotes
Mmm. Coffeeeeee! I love coffee. Coffee is my friend. Is coffee your friend, too?
--Jess Jess

Yay for shooting ourselves! --Me

It’s times like these that I want to jump off of a bridge for the fun of it. --Jackie

Lying is bad. Lying to the government is worse. –Me (Talking about ROTC)

My parents will personally murder me and burry me with the utmost disdain. –Jackie (talking about ROTC)

(Said to passing cars) Hit me, pleeeeeaaaaase!! --Everyone

So you open up the HUGE Engineering Textbook, you flip through and see all these numbers, letters, and symbols, and you think, “Wait a second. This isn’t a Bible. Why are they talking about sin?” –Deryk

“Oh, geeze, I’m really at Mines, aren’t I?” –James (referring to the last entry)

Shoot me, please.
Only if you shoot me first. –Everyone

We can't do simple math anymore, but we sure can figure out the huge complex problems. Yeah, we're engineers. --Jackie

(referring to the 25 point essay question on the Chem test) Blah blah blah what the heck does this mean blah blah blah I’ve had it, I am screwed blah blah blah thank heavens for partial credit blah blah blah. --Pavelich

These are from the Mines Glossary of Terms:
“Names” of courses: Physucks (physics), Diffy-Screw (differential equations), Goddamics (dynamics), Sadistics (statistics), Chem-mystery

Coors Lab—taking the short tour of the Coors Brewery to get a free sample at the end

Bite Me—letter of rejection received when applying for employment

Extendo-Bite-Me—A letter stating the company is still reviewing your qualifications

Engineering estimate—a wild guess. Also known as a SWAG

Squid—student who spends excessive time studying rather than developing important social skills.

Close enough for tunnel work—as near to the correct answer as you want to get.

And here are some “Mines turndowns” that my roomie and I thought up after studying a REALLY long time for the first Chem test:
Sorry, I’m only interested in ions and molecular equations.

I only do empirical formulas, and you’re not an empirical formula. (Did I mention we came up with these while being sleep deprived?)

We get on too many tangents with our relationship. Don’t you know that the derivative of tangent is secant… see can’t you see that that send the wrong sine? (REALLY sleep deprived. And yes, the derivative is really secant squared…..)

I talk about linear equations in my sleep.


So, yeah. There’s another laugh for you, I hope. Have a good one!

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