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• After telling people what you study and they think you will become a pilot, stewardess or an astronaut.
• You are not surprised if there is a 7th-year student in your 2nd year project group.
• There is a supersonic F-16 fighter aircraft in the faculty
• You can count the number of women in any lecture room on one hand
• You have no life, and you can PROVE it mathematically
• You sit in the train and think about its eigenmotions
• You see people taking a coarse for the first time at the examination
• You know vector calculus but you can’t remember how to do long division
• You have received flying lessons worth 1000€ for finishing your first year in one year. . . or not
• You’ve actually used every single function on your graphing calculator
• The instructor of differential equations knows your name even if you have never been to his lectures
• When your last 4 Deans have sworn to “reduce study time” into their welcome speeches only to give up within 3 years.
• The professor of differential equations greets you by name when you come to review your latest attempt at passing his exam. Again
• Every year, you perform wind tunnel tests and fly for one hour on the cost of the faculty
• You can assign a physical unit to every letter in the English alphabet
• You know how it feels like to be weightless
• You start telling engineering jokes, a concept you thought was horrible at your arrival in 1st year and swore to never do something like that.
• Lectures are given by professors, but also CEO’s, fighter pilots and astronauts
• You realize that what you have been told about the ECTS values is a big joke
• Since your first year you think next year will be easier. Then when you find yourself in the 5th year you realize you were fooled
• Later, when you will answer the question of what you studied, you will say “I studied Aerospace Engineering” and even if you seem modest, you will feel good
• Later, when you will answer the question of what you studied, you will say “I ‘m a Rocket Scientist, Bitch!” and while you won’t seem remotely modest, you will still feel good

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Engineering Joke of the Day:

The functions are out partying on Friday night and things are getting wild! Except for a bunch of emo functions standing alone in a corner, who don’t appear to have fun.
Cosine walks to them : “come on, guys, grab a drink, climb up the podium! Try to integrate!”
“Whatever”, replies e^(x) rolling his eyes. “It’s all the same to me”

-Raphaëlle

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