If a professor at engineering school assigned this book, would it create a paradox?
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between that and an actual engineering school book, you'd have access to all the knowledge in the known universe
Yeah seriously that book he's holding in his hand seems quite small for all the information it claims to contain.
Chapter 1: The Social Sciences
I so wish this is a book about Humanities
Turn it off and turn it back on?
In before the book is all about cooking tips and tricks
How to interact with other humans.
Ben Rich, aeronautical engineer and second head of Lockeed's Skunkworks after Kelly Johnson mentions Harvard Business School in his autobiography. He was apparently sent to a program they taught there for professionals already working in industry to become more business savvy. Kelly Johnson sent Ben Rich to this program, and when Rich got back, Johnson asked him what he learned. He said "Okay let me show you." and he turned to the blackboard and wrote "2/3 HBS = BS" on the blackboard.
According to my experience, the left one does not amount to much.
Yeah, books can't teach you nepotism
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Except what they teach you in engineering school, apparently.
I hear the chapter called "your girlfriend is studying abroad with stinky Frenchmen, and other pick-me scenarios to ruin your 20s" is particularly riveting.
i stayed awake for at least 20% of lecture time, so there is that
All that math you learned? Forget it. You're in spreadsheet land now.
Did you like those fancy tools they gave you in school? You can cling to your memories of them as you attempt to recreate their functionality in excel without your boss noticing that you're wasting time on this
I had a programmer giving up on a task today and had to resort to VBA in Excel.
Excel is a shit program and Visual Basic is a shit language, but if you combine them, you can do things that are impossible in any other way.
Someone once said that you can make Excel do anything except coffee. I disagree. It can probably make coffee too.
That being said, it's important to know how to sanity-check the math, especially in the era of Copilot in Excel. We just found that our company's configuration enables it by default on new workbooks, as we found when it was just...making up numbers when asked to do simple addition.
Year 2194:
"Well, it's like my ol' papy copilot always used to say.... 2 + 2 = null."
Stawberries
There needs to be a required summer semester of engineering school called "being a mechanic."
Okay college boy, put on a shirt with your name embroidered on it and come out here into the shop. Yeah it's 110 degrees in the shade, you've got your buddy Tom Midgly Jr. to thank for that. Now take this wrench and take that bolt out. Oh it doesn't come out because the oil pan is in the way? I wonder whose fault that is. No, we're not gonna let it cool before dropping the oil pan, the customer is in the lobby. Yeah. It is 240 degrees. No, it doesn't all drain out through the plug, there's a half quart that doesn't come out. Yes, you're getting that on you. Don't get any of it on the interior of the car when you back it out. Now take off the oil filter. Yes, you're gonna burn the back of your hand on the exhaust manifold. You're taking every Toyota oil filter off this summer. You're gonna hold the burn mark on the back of your hand up like Tyler Durden.
Oh you're going to be an aeronautical engineer. c'mere boy, we're gonna take the wings off a 152 Aerobat, you get to pick the spar bolts out of the catalog, we'll safety wire the control cable turnbuckles through those little inspection ports you types are so stingy with, and then we'll take the bird you just reassembled up for a couple two or three hours of spin training to see if ya done it right. You ever do a snap roll? I'll teach you more about the aerodynamics of maneuvering flight in 1.5 seconds than your physics professor did in a semester. Eat bananas for breakfast, they taste the same coming up as they do going down. And buddy they're coming back up. Because of the special jug bolt wrench I had to buy, I'm gonna pull at least one breakfast back out of your face using nothing but stick and rudder.
I studied electrical engineering, I had to do a mandatory internship of 10 weeks. Pretty sure the mechanical engineers had to do one too, but I suppose this varies a lot across countries.
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could be a cook book
Guess I'm a whole day late on a simalar joke...
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