Memory Lane - Varsity Engineers
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 5:17PM 
Ah, Varsity Engineers...
We're catching up on Greek, and a dorky Engineering student opens the door of Spitter's apartment to find Casey there. Like Raj on on Big Bang Theory, he freezes at the sight of a pretty woman unable to speak.
This took me back to the Engineers at my University, back in South Africa.
I don't remember them being as dorky. A lot of them had come through the Civil War in Rhodesia's conversion to Zimbabwe, had suffered the stress of a strange war, and were very, very into partying. They were in a different country, literally footloose and fancy free.
And - boy! - could they drink.
The only thing they did better than drink was be pigs.
Disgusting, revolting pigs.
You could always spot an Engineering student - the bloodshot eyes, the stale hangover-breath, and the smelly clothes - courtesy of the same shorts, shoes and slops (thongs/flip flops) for at least a week.
The Engineers brought out a cheap-ass publication (photocopied at the Library and stapled together) every year full of dirty, sexist jokes. Yes, it was funny, but it was also vile.
There was a woman Engineer in our res (dorm/residence) who took shit every single day of lectures.
But there's always another side to the story.
Many of the Engineers were hot. And their devil-may-care attitude was seductive.
If you could find one on the day of the week that he'd actually showered, you were in for a good night of - as the slang was that year - "Shaping" with him.
So, yes, I schtuped an Engineer.
And, a few years later, I married one. Except this one bathes.
Thank God.
Reader Comments (4)
We aim to please :)
Now if you would just please AIM...
You have an engineer that can't aim? Tsk tsk. ;-) I love Raj on BBT. He's so damn cute how naive he is about everything. Of course, for some odd reason, I'm strangely attracted to Sheldon. Probably because he and I think so much alike. I'm pathetic, I know.
@Shelli
YES! There is something strangely attractive about Sheldon. You want to mother him and yet do bad things to him all at the same time. It'd be like being the first one for him, but like that every damn time.