My Life Among the Engineers

Disclaimer: Because I am one I can make fun of them ;)

For a long time the engineer has been considered one of the more mysterious and frustrating of all the majors.

There are several explanations for this. Some claim that they are impossible to understand due to their strange dialect which only scientists and other engineers have been able to decode. Others claim it is due to an arrogance and attitude of "better than thou", to which many engineers will respond that they're simply better, and that it should just be accepted. Some even claim that it due to an abnormal lack of social skills that would allow them to mesh better with the rest of society.

I do not claim to have all the answers, but I do hope to shed some light on these strange creatures by recording my observations from my time spent among them.

The first thing that caught my attention was the lack of female in the species. True there are a few, and I am told that the number is growing, but the fact is that few males can hope to find a partner of their own kind and will have to look to other majors. One may think this wouldn't be such a huge problem, but the fact that engineers speak a strange dialect, and they do not understand that a girl just wants to see a musical sometimes... or talk about clothes. They also do not understand that when a woman shares her woes and problems, she doesn't necessarily want them solved, which is the natural instinct of and engineer.

Now, while it is commonly observed that these creatures hold any major not associated with their own, I also discovered that there is a hierarchy of clans within the species. It is a very convoluted system so I can only guess, but here is my best theory: The Engineering physics clan is at the top, followed by the electrical and mechanical clans.this seems due to the fact that no one actually knows what they do. At the bottom is the industrial clan, also called "imaginary" engineers. despite this, they will all unite against, say, a business major.

Yes, it is a harsh society, but the engineers seem to like it none the less.

The engineers have only a few natural predators. The two that come immediately to mind are writing and presenting. Classes have been instigated to help protect, but only those who put great effort into evolving will survive I fear.

Hopefully my brief observations will help others to understand these creatures. If you too have spent time with and have some observations of these poor majors, feel free to share.

~your friendly neighborhood Princess