June has been a month of contradictions. I've had lots of fun - a BBQ for my 25th birthday, riding horses on the beach with my lab, backpacking at Trinity Alps, a beautiful recreation area near Lake Shasta (photos coming soon). But I've also had lots of issues - a viral infection of my corneas (I didn't even knew that was possible, though I guess you can get infections pretty much anywhere), a nasty cold for the past few days (which I think might be related to the eye infection, but I'll probably never know), and some idiotic lab issues that I ended up in the middle of. In fact, I've spent far more time playing lab administrator/bad cop than I have doing research of late, which is a shame because I have reason to believe that my research is finally getting somewhere.
I mean, it's also a shame that I have to treat certain other graduate students (not my labmates, fortunately - they're awesome to work with) like five-year-olds, but they asked for it. I've come to realize two things. First, an unfortunate number of male mechanical engineers really do act like those stereotypical engineers who have no social skills and simply do not notice or care when they're acting like idiots. Second, a lot of what you need to know you really did learn in kindergarten - or should have. Some people seem to have moved on without grasping fundamentals like how to share and play nicely with others. These people, it seems, grow up to be socially-challenged mechanical engineers, and then they try to colonize my lab space without permission.
Disclaimer: not all mechanical engineers lack social skills. I know this because I keep dating the better-socialized ones. You can usually tell who's who because the ones with social skills ski, or at least snowboard.
Good day,pls i want to become a authomatic car mechanic.
Posted by: Yusuff Balogun | June 24, 2006 at 05:28 AM