Engineers: As Much Imagination as a Lump of Wet Spinach

One of the perks [is it really a perk? Is it really?] of being in the school of engineering [groan] is the fact that I get a lot of emails about internships, job openings, etc. However, some of them...

An email came in this morning from some student group that's sponsoring a "Chevron Refinery Tour!!!" It's your standard email about going to some Chevron plant, but this sentence, near the middle of the email, caught my eye: "Chevron specifically asked for Chemical and Mechanical Engineers who are interested in the refining industry."

And all I could think to myself was "Who the FUCK would honestly be interested in working in the refining industry?"

Which brings me to another point: engineers have the worst types of imagination. I purposely didn't euphemize it either. It's not a different kind of imagination, it's the worst kind of imagination. Engineers create, but never out of the box. They're so confined to thinking inside the box that they end up working at places like Chevron... refining oil.

Which is truly my quarrel with South Campus in general. Granted, if we stick to the science-related fiends we're going to have a well-paying job in the near future [with the possible exception of Math majors] because [almost] everything we're learning has some benefit to mankind, but if we confine ourselves to only being involved with South Campus, it'll destroy our other half.

Thank god for LCC.