Comments on: The Engineering-Everyone Else Divide http://crispycromar.com/the-engineering-everyone-else-divide/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: James http://crispycromar.com/the-engineering-everyone-else-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-33 James Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:48:40 +0000 http://www.crispycromar.com/2008/02/01/the-engineering-everyone-else-divide/#comment-33 I noted a sign of this divide while attending my undergraduate work at the University of Utah. Near the engineering buildings, I noticed that the students smoked their cigarettes quickly and efficiently, while those student smoking outside the humanities buildings coolly and languidly smoked theirs. I noted a sign of this divide while attending my undergraduate work at the University of Utah. Near the engineering buildings, I noticed that the students smoked their cigarettes quickly and efficiently, while those student smoking outside the humanities buildings coolly and languidly smoked theirs.

]]> By: SaraCW http://crispycromar.com/the-engineering-everyone-else-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-22 SaraCW Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:50:53 +0000 http://www.crispycromar.com/2008/02/01/the-engineering-everyone-else-divide/#comment-22 Now, now, boys... play nice. Now, now, boys… play nice.

]]> By: Your Beloved Brother in Law http://crispycromar.com/the-engineering-everyone-else-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Your Beloved Brother in Law Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:38:36 +0000 http://www.crispycromar.com/2008/02/01/the-engineering-everyone-else-divide/#comment-21 I covet your master-planned campus's ability to keep your sort of nerds away from my sort of nerds. All too often at Harvard, I find myself forced to walk through the new construction modernist engineering hell just to get to my 19th century stone Divinity school heaven. I'm sure Dante would appreciate the ringed UCI campus--not that you would want to study such humanities tripe. I find your essay riveting, though. The examples you select to emphasize certain points touched me personally. You show kindness to kindly souls who study religion and French, souls like me who at poorly designed campuses must walk through the school of engineering to get between their religion and French classes. Even a soul like me, who as a victim of a cruel trick of classroom scheduling, actually takes a History of Christianity class in the chemistry wing of the Science Center. Perhaps the most touching part of your epic droning about campus design was your final question: "Are there inherent differences between carnivorous republican engineers, and vegetarian democrat liberal arts majors?" Indeed there are. One of them would have properly capitalized the words in that question, and one of them would know how to build a bridge between the two--but wouldn't actually do that because he wouldn't want to spend money on a social program. Probably, the only thing that could bring two such characters together would have to be good looking women. I covet your master-planned campus’s ability to keep your sort of nerds away from my sort of nerds. All too often at Harvard, I find myself forced to walk through the new construction modernist engineering hell just to get to my 19th century stone Divinity school heaven. I’m sure Dante would appreciate the ringed UCI campus–not that you would want to study such humanities tripe.

I find your essay riveting, though. The examples you select to emphasize certain points touched me personally. You show kindness to kindly souls who study religion and French, souls like me who at poorly designed campuses must walk through the school of engineering to get between their religion and French classes. Even a soul like me, who as a victim of a cruel trick of classroom scheduling, actually takes a History of Christianity class in the chemistry wing of the Science Center.

Perhaps the most touching part of your epic droning about campus design was your final question: “Are there inherent differences between carnivorous republican engineers, and vegetarian democrat liberal arts majors?” Indeed there are. One of them would have properly capitalized the words in that question, and one of them would know how to build a bridge between the two–but wouldn’t actually do that because he wouldn’t want to spend money on a social program. Probably, the only thing that could bring two such characters together would have to be good looking women.

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