The decision process...

[Faline2]

<p>wonderful outcome, weenie…great kid. ya’ll have fun enjoying the rest of his senior year, now!</p>

[mom2sons]

<p>Since this thread is mostly about engineering students, you might find our story amusing. DS narrowed his choices to two - RPI and Rose-Hulman, but kept procrastinating making a decision, since both had strong software / computer engineering programs, but were different in other ways. I took him to dinner to discuss - no choice; I helped him make a table with stregths / weaknesses of each school - still no choice; then, we sat down, and in typical nerdy fashion, he made a spreadsheet with weighted factors (everything from core curriculum to dorm life). He needed to see it GRAPHED, and then he compared the graph to the reach school where he was denied. Finally, a decision. It’s Rose!</p>

[nic767]

<p>After hearing that story mom2sons I can truly say that your son definitely belongs at Rose. If he managed to incorporate a spreadsheet and some kind of equation into his college decision, well, then by golly, he might just be an engineer.</p>

<p>That’s funny. And congrats to all the students who have decided where they want to go to school.</p>

[Dad_o_2]

<p>

He needed to see it GRAPHED

Ah, a man after my own heart!</p>

<p>

YOU MIGHT BE AN ENGINEER…
If you have no life - and you can PROVE mathematically.</p>

<p>If you enjoy pain.</p>

<p>If you know vector calculus but you can’t remember how to do long division.</p>

<p>If you chuckle whenever anyone says “centrifugal force”.</p>

<p>If you’ve actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.</p>

<p>If when you look in the mirror you see an engineering major.</p>

<p>If it’s sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.</p>

<p>If you frequently whistle the theme song to “MacGyver”.</p>

<p>If you always do homework on friday nights.</p>

<p>If you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water.</p>

<p>If you think in “math”.</p>

<p>If you’ve actually calculated that the World Series diverges.</p>

<p>If you have a pet named afetr a scientist.</p>

<p>If you laugh at jokes about mathematicians.</p>

<p>If you can translate English into Binary.</p>

<p>If you are completely addicted to caffeine.</p>

<p>If you avoid doing anything because you don’t want to contribute to the
eventual heat-death of the universe.</p>

<p>If when your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have
accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to
Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe.</p>

<p>If the “fun” center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use.</p>

<p>If you’ll assume that a “horse” is a “sphere” in order to make the math
easier.</p>

<p>If you understood more than five of these indicators.

<a href=“http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umvanuy0/humor/engineer.html[/url]”>http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umvanuy0/humor/engineer.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So my S sent the deposit off to Case over the weekend, and signed up for orientation and a service project “Case Venture”. </p>

<p>Ahhhhhh, it feels so good to have some clarity and order in life again.</p>