I’ve always been told, and probably deep down in my repressed subconscious realized, that IC is full of nerds. Of course, what do you expect when you concentrate massive amounts of engineering students together with even crazier intellectuals we call lecturers? But here is living proof that this is by no means an opinion, but hard Scientific fact. The last few jokes I heard in the recent couple of weeks :

Introduction:
Dr O’hare was proving mathematically that it takes roughly 3 months for a red blood cell to travel the entire blood system, and, coincidentally, that is roughly the lifespan of a red blood cell.
Joke:
One old red blood cell says to another, “Hey, we’ve been to every part of the body already. Let’s go check out the spleen!”

Introduction:
Mr Holloway on optical waves.
Joke:
“Last night I was watching insert-movie-name-I-forgot, which was, honestly, a load of rubbish. They talked about invisible microwaves… as opposed to…”

Introduction:
Dr Bull defining the second moment of area.
Joke:
“Now why is it bd cubed over 64? That doesn’t matter. We’re engineers. We’re not interested in the method, we’re interested in results.”

As lame as those jokes were, everyone laughed (self-included). Which really just goes to show how geeked-out ICians are! When I think about how a normal (yes, my dear IC mates, I’m using the term normal because we are not!) person would react… I can only remember my sisters expression the last time (I made it a point never to repeat this mistake) I told her a mathematical joke.

She said “Sharm, when we are out in public, don’t ever say anything like that.”
Dead serious expression, no laughs.

Well, what probably takes the cake was last week’s Bible study. We read a passage on when the disciples asked Jesus about the future. Jesus responded by telling, in quite depth details, what would happen, but he said that nobody will know the exact time of such things. Well, really, you would have to have read the passage, and probably, understand what exactly goes on inside this geek-overdose brain of mine, to understand how I came to this conclusion…

But I just couldn’t help comparing that passage to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle! I mean, we knew all the signs and the exact things that would and are happening… but we never know the exact time. C’mon…that’s a little like Heisenberg’s principle, don’tcha think???? If you know the exact energy, you don’t know the time and vice versa. If you know the exact momentum, you never know the exact location. Same thing, different words. Don’tcha think?????

Ok fine. That is the geek in me, and as hard as I try to suppress her… she’s finding more creative ways of getting out! (She’s a lot smarter than the normal me, you see. Lol.)