Giving engineers a bad name

[fbhjr]

We 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.

Comments

[64tbird.livejournal.com]

Pick her up at the Hampshire bus stop.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

There appears to be a certain reluctance for her to travel in costume across campus...
Or, that is what it seems like to me.
If she stays with us, I'm sure we'll overcome that.

[64tbird.livejournal.com]

That makes Hampshire the PERFECT place to meet.

I know - I went to school there for four years...

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

She's new. It's her first show with us. I'll pick her up where she asks.
IF she does more shows with us, we will discuss other options.

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

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.

[64tbird.livejournal.com]

That's just stupid.

Had your advisor never read "Godel, Escher, Bach"???

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

My father, who worked as an electrical engineer for 52 years, used to quote sections of that book to us over dinner.

[64tbird.livejournal.com]

I just gave my copy to my 15 year old.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

That was around the age I read it.
I should read it again some time, I hardly remember it.

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Alas, that advisor was not well versed -or interested- in things that were not explicitly "engineering". I ended up with a different advisor the following year, who was a much more "spiritual" and holistic in his views.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Although I lived in Worcester for more than a decade, and have lived only one town over for another 2 decades, there is one museum in the city I never got to see.
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...

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Well, they probably didn't have any benches there, anyway! ;-)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Benches? Maybe not.
But I bet they had a lot of seats...

Well, crap....

[64tbird.livejournal.com]

So you never got a handle on that museum, and trying to get a group together was a flush? And then the museum tanked?

Just trying to put a lid on the rumours....

Re: Well, crap....

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Only one way to follow up on that statement - from one of my favorite groups...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAt4qWvz_8

Re: Well, crap....

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

They are still out there, they just moved 40 miles east:
http://www.theplumbingmuseum.org/index.html

Looks like their hours haven't changed....

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Yeah I wanted to see the toliet museum off and on, but yeah it apparently closed, apparently not, etc.

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