It's inevitable:

Put more than two engineers in the same room for a short amount of time, and without fail, the conversation will eventually turn into the classic engineering equivalent of a penis length contest.

By that I mean, the untold competition that is having the most amount of shit to do in the next week or so. Example:

"Dude, I'm so fucked. I have a lab on Tuesday and then a test and program on Wednesday."

"Dude, whatever man. I have three tests on Monday, a lab due Wednesday that I haven't started, a project due Thursday that my partner won't do shit on, and then a homework assignment due Friday."

"You guys have it easy. I broke both of my wrists and have to type with my  toes now, my computer HD crashed, my apartment burned down, and I have 4 tests next week and 3 programming assignments."

Of course, at some point a business major might chime in about how he has "work" to do that is "hard".

However, everyone will eventually stop laughing at him and continue with their discussion as normal.

So I just finished a lab in my digital logic design class. I had to design a circuit that took input from 4 switches (on/off ... binary style) and displayed the corresponding decimal digit in an LCD window. After designing the circuit at a gate level, then writing it in VHDL, I was able to use a program to translate it and upload it to a project board. I then proceeded to test it out... and when i flipped the switches... I saw the correct numbers come up on the LCD.

and it was tite as SHIT.

I guess I'm in the right major if I thought that was cool.. haha. The weekend is almost here! Thank freakn goodness.

-Brandon Valosek, EE nerd