[KenWittlief]

Real engineers:

- dont care about astetics, only function

- know you cant push a rope or chain

- know that sometimes you have to push a rope or chain

- demand that you listen to what they mean, not what they said

- can explain to you why a base model Saturn is 'faster' than a corvette, if you make less than $7 an hour

- know that imaginary numbers are actually real, and that the real world is whats imaginary

- can draw you a graph on a napkin at a chinese resturant to prove that you should order the shrimp instead of the chicken

- wear a pocket protector to keep lint out of their pen, not to keep ink off their shirt

-know that a 'slide rule' is not a regulation pertaining to playground equipment