How to strike up a conversation with doctors/lawyers/engineers?

[Fuuma]

BTW this thread is more dehumanizing than Abu Ghraib, good work!!

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by Huntsman

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.

 

[Sherman90]

Originally Posted by Teacher

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?

 

[Rusty G.]

I'm an attorney. I guess the best way to open a conversation is "how's your practice going?"

 

[gnatty8]

I deal with this question by avoiding conversations with all three where at all possible..

 

[DBoon]

Originally Posted by Helix

Omg that is at least 8 different kinds of amazing.

Helix, are you Civil?

 

[Helix]

Originally Posted by DBoon

Helix, are you Civil?

Mechanical. For some reason all the Civil guys I know are complete dicks.

 

[DBoon]

Originally Posted by Helix

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 **** the career path is like for my field, re-evaluating my life, all the fun stuff

 

[Helix]

Originally Posted by DBoon

do please enlighten me

...in the process of applying for M.S. / M.Eng., learning exactly what the **** 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.

 

[warmpi]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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.

 

[norcaltransplant]

Originally Posted by warmpi

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?