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post #46 of 56
11/10/09 at 4:44pm
BTW this thread is more dehumanizing than Abu Ghraib, good work!!
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post #47 of 56
11/10/09 at 6:04pm
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I was having dinner with a few engineers and materials scientists in Boston, and one gentleman asked what a scallop tasted like, I started describing it as a "transversely isotropic..."

While your answer is great, the thought that a grown professional, in Boston, has not had a scallop is very sad.
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post #48 of 56
11/10/09 at 6:22pm
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English. And yes, believe it or not, people ask. And no, I don't like it.

I never knew you taught English.

Is it anything like Dead Poets Society?
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post #49 of 56
11/10/09 at 11:14pm
I'm an attorney. I guess the best way to open a conversation is "how's your practice going?"
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post #50 of 56
11/10/09 at 11:17pm
I deal with this question by avoiding conversations with all three where at all possible..
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post #51 of 56
11/11/09 at 4:26am
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Omg that is at least 8 different kinds of amazing.

Helix, are you Civil?
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post #52 of 56
11/11/09 at 4:31am
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Helix, are you Civil?

Mechanical. For some reason all the Civil guys I know are complete dicks.
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post #53 of 56
11/11/09 at 4:46am
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Mechanical. For some reason all the Civil guys I know are complete dicks.

do please enlighten me

...in the process of applying for M.S. / M.Eng., learning exactly what the fuck the career path is like for my field, re-evaluating my life, all the fun stuff
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post #54 of 56
11/11/09 at 5:12am
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do please enlighten me

...in the process of applying for M.S. / M.Eng., learning exactly what the fuck the career path is like for my field, re-evaluating my life, all the fun stuff

Heh i'm still undergrad and probably going to jump to physics in grad school so I'll be of little help there. I hear materials is fun if you like research.
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post #55 of 56
11/11/09 at 5:20am
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While your answer is great, the thought that a grown professional, in Boston, has not had a scallop is very sad.

Perhaps he was asking how that particular dish of scallops tasted, and not how scallops in general taste. At least, that's how I choose to interpret it. I refuse to believe that an educated professional has never tasted a scallop. We have not sunk that low.
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post #56 of 56
11/14/09 at 10:33pm
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Perhaps he was asking how that particular dish of scallops tasted, and not how scallops in general taste. At least, that's how I choose to interpret it. I refuse to believe that an educated professional has never tasted a scallop. We have not sunk that low.

There are no Jews in Boston?
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