Steve emailed me this conversation he had with some of his engineering club students, and I think it's very amusing and blog-worthy. I even asked permission before posting it, although Steve sent it to me when I was in Wales and the Internet came to me through the large-screen TV, making all the email I received public, and sometimes when I'd check my email, Kirsten would sit down next to me on the couch, and I'd say, "So, you gonna sit here and read my email now?" and she'd say, "It's from your mom" and then I'd say, "Yeah, but then I'm going to read the one from Steve" and then she'd say, "Yeah, so?" and then I learned to check my email at night after she and Stash went to bed (because you never know what kind of scandalous information Mom might send me).
I added the bold, but otherwise the following text is as Steve sent it to me, so Me=Steve and Them=Scottish Students.
Me: Hey... guess what, I've arranged for us to enter the UK-wide agricultural engineering challenge this year, down in England. We just need to fund raise some cash to pay for transport. We'll be building a robot!
Them: Oh cool, what kind of robot, like the ones in Robot Wars that battle each other?
Me: No... umm, more like an... agricultural robot. They send us a motor and some wheels and we design and build the rest to perform the task they give us.
Them: Right, that's great, what's the task?
Me: Going up a hill pulling a block of wood.
Them: Like in a field over rough terrain?
Me: No, ah, well, actually it's a model of a hill. I think it's made of plywood.
Them: Right, but when we're done we can repurpose the robot to do something cool and run it around campus?
Me: Umm, actually they ask for the wheels and motor back.
Them: . . .
Me: But we'll get a guided tour of an axle factor!
Them: Actually that does sound cool, let's have our first meeting on Thursday night!
Funny, right?
5 comments:
And I thought chemical engineers were kinda nerdy. Don't get me wrong--I love nerds! I was raised by one! But it is pretty funny.
Ah, well they're not chemical engineers, so maybe that's the difference.
How is that a conversation that you didn't want me to read on the big screen?
This one you would have been entirely welcome to read.
Steve, I don't know who you are, but you sound like a good time.
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