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mauiclone said:
Does anyone else work with any engineers/nerds. I get the biggest kick out of these folks when they talk about basketball. They think they are experts and most of them can barely chew gum and walk at the same time. I feel sorry for anyone that has to live with these folks. They crack me up man. When it comes to sports they are clueness. They need to stick to their calculators and straight edges.
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Just having some fun. Maybe with the recession folks are more uptight. Don't take your self so serious.
 
Why are we attacking engineers? It is the actuaries that don't know crap about basketball.
 
My brother going into engineering, and knows a lot about sports. I know a lot of people at my high school going into engineering who know anything about everything to do with sports.
 
I may or may not be able to "chew gum and walk", but I can paint my face and run around a balcony with a flag giving high-fives :jimlad:
 
mauiclone said:
Does anyone else work with any engineers/nerds. I get the biggest kick out of these folks when they talk about basketball. They think they are experts and most of them can barely chew gum and walk at the same time. I feel sorry for anyone that has to live with these folks. They crack me up man. When it comes to sports they are clueness. They need to stick to their calculators and straight edges.
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Boom! Stereotyping is AWESOME. I am sure they all fit into your box. Why don't you tell us what you do so we can stereotype you...it is fun!
 
I'm an engineer by day and a basketball official at night!

For the record, I get more respect for my basketball knowledge as an engineer than I do wearing the stripes :biggrin:
 
My brother is at ISU right now, majoring in software engineering.

We have both played sports all are life. We have had season football tickets all are life. I don't think we've missed a game at Jack Trice in about 12 or 13 years.

You can't just put that big of a stereotype on engineers. What career are you supposed to have to know sports? Just because someone is smart doesn't mean they don't have an interest in sports.

The guys you are talking about probably know more about sports than you. You just mad yourself look like a complete jackass.
 
I think the term nerd is used with a huge gap or loophole. People may be nerds, yet it just depends how much they concentrate their smarts to certain things. For example, knowing structural behaviors, knowing mechanics, or knowing the principals of basketball, just to name a few. Engineers are capable of performing this multitasking ability.
 
NIowaClone said:
I think the term nerd is used with a huge gap or loophole. People may be nerds, yet it just depends how much they concentrate their smarts to certain things. For example, knowing structural behaviors, knowing mechanics, or knowing the principals of basketball, just to name a few. Engineers are capable of performing this multitasking ability.
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also, they can check Facebook, Hotmail, CF, and "real email" all at this same time!
 
Sousaclone said:
What if I knew an engineer who played basketball for ISU, graduated with honors from undergrad, and was/is getting his masters in Structural Engineering from ISU? I think he might understand how the game is played.
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I think I know exactly who you are talking about and some people just don't understand
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Nerds? I hate nerds!

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loki8838 said:
Sorry to pile on and keep this thread alive, but it reminded me of an engineer related story from my Cyclone days.

I lived in a fraternity on Welch Ave, and after homecoming one year, we were dismantling our Lawn Display that was built for the Homecoming competition. Eventually it was down to a pile of 2 X 4's that needed the nails pulled out so we could use the wood again. I grabbed a claw hammer, handed it to one of the Freshman in our house, and told him to take all the nails out. I went about doing something else and eventually went back to check on him. I found him standing on the first board, with a foot on either side of the first nail, claw hammer hooked on the head of the nail and he was pulling straight up with both hands. (Not using the leverage aspect of the hammer, trying to brute force pull the nail out.)

After considerable laughter on my part I showed him how it was supposed to work. This kid was in his first semester at Iowa State, but was already a sophomore classification wise, as he had somehow tested out of his entire freshman curriculum. He had a 4.0 GPA in one of the engineering disciplines (Mechanical I think), and was an exceptionally smart kid, but couldn't figure the hammer thing out.
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That's a Junior level class, he learned it the following year. :jimlad:
 
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