Giving engineers a bad name
Oct. 12th, 2012 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fbhjrWe have two new members to Phoenix Swords, both of whom will be doing their
very first performance with us tomorrow.
The newer of them is a college student at Smith College and is studying
engineering.
As she has no car, we are going to give her a ride to the show tomorrow.
But, that left the question of where to pick her up.
I don’t know any of the dorms, library or campus center.
“What about the art museum?” I asked her. “I know how to find the art
museum at Smith College.”
“We have an art museum?” she asked.
“Of course you have an art museum,” I said. “I’ve been there.”
“What do I know about art museums? I’m an engineer!” she shouted.
Kids these days.
My engineering school didn’t even have an art museum. But, I knew where
the one closest was located.
very first performance with us tomorrow.
The newer of them is a college student at Smith College and is studying
engineering.
As she has no car, we are going to give her a ride to the show tomorrow.
But, that left the question of where to pick her up.
I don’t know any of the dorms, library or campus center.
“What about the art museum?” I asked her. “I know how to find the art
museum at Smith College.”
“We have an art museum?” she asked.
“Of course you have an art museum,” I said. “I’ve been there.”
“What do I know about art museums? I’m an engineer!” she shouted.
Kids these days.
My engineering school didn’t even have an art museum. But, I knew where
the one closest was located.
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 08:10 pm (UTC)Or, that is what it seems like to me.
If she stays with us, I'm sure we'll overcome that.
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Date: 2012-10-12 08:14 pm (UTC)I know - I went to school there for four years...
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Date: 2012-10-12 08:29 pm (UTC)IF she does more shows with us, we will discuss other options.
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Date: 2012-10-12 08:20 pm (UTC)Kids these days - if it isn't visible on their little glass screen in their hand, it doesn't exist in their minds...
Heck, I knew where ALL the museums were within a 15 mile radius around my college - and I went to them all, multiple times.
Of course, my advisor - who was the Dean of the engineering college - also tried to convince me to stop taking music history and theory classes.
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Date: 2012-10-12 08:27 pm (UTC)Had your advisor never read "Godel, Escher, Bach"???
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Date: 2012-10-12 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 08:34 pm (UTC)I should read it again some time, I hardly remember it.
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Date: 2012-10-12 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 08:27 pm (UTC)The Worcester Museum of Sanitary Plumbing.
My friends and I often discussed the "toilet museum" and our desire to see it.
But, it was only open to school groups and we never managed to get enough folks together to qualify.
I hear it closed a few years ago...
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Date: 2012-10-12 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 08:36 pm (UTC)But I bet they had a lot of seats...
Well, crap....
Date: 2012-10-12 09:15 pm (UTC)Just trying to put a lid on the rumours....
Re: Well, crap....
Date: 2012-10-13 12:14 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAt4qWvz_8
Re: Well, crap....
Date: 2012-10-13 12:36 pm (UTC)http://www.theplumbingmuseum.org/index.html
Looks like their hours haven't changed....
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Date: 2012-10-14 01:21 am (UTC)there was an Eisenhower museum in Union Station I didn't know about until I read the article in the paper about it's closing because
noone visited it
*eyeroll*
As for your Smith engineer...I could have a smart retort of "Smith has engineers?" But I Know Better.
Hopefully she'll go to the art museum on campus. If not...She's not a [real] member of PS :D