Engineering Professionalism

Engineering Professionalism is the name of the new compulsory module for all budding engineers in my Uni. Since I have to take it in order to graduate, I thought, heck...lets just do it and get it over with. I thought it was ok at first; you know....a different module from the norm, with a clearer objective to what you are studying and all that jazz.

But I was wrong. Modules at my place have lots of projects. And, projects work in the following way. You give someone a topic, ask him to either research discuss or whatever...and you ask that person to write a report on it. But...BUT... you always give a guidline as to where the project should end up.

From the projects that I have done so far, my guidlines to the conclusions were as clear as the smogs on London's winter nights. So lucid were they, that I could hardly see the fronts of my outstretched hands. So many times have I fallen into the Thames that I now just stand and wait for the smog to lift(usually after the results come out) so that I can walk again.

The only module that promised a clear day was this, and then....

30% project on "End of the Petroleum Era" submit by 17th Oct. Project must relate to Engineering Professionalism.

And I'm like WTF?!?!?

What the Blo*** H*** does the End of the Petroleum Era have anything to do with Engineering Professionalism????? And I've been trying to find a connection for the past 3 weeks!! My clear day turned from sunshine to smog on my very first step. Now I'm in midstride of my first step waiting for the bloody thing to lift. I don't dare move in case my next step is into the Thames.

Engineering Professionalism...my A**. A module deviating from the norm my A**. Next time some idiot even hints that a particular module is different from the normal, I gonna shove him back into the Thames from whence he came, and make sure he stays down there.

DON'T READ THIS!

Why is it that the moment you tell someone not to do something...the person immediately does it. I mean...I'm telling you not to read this...but you are still reading it...
C'mon..stop it. I'm telling you not to!
Let it be...let not curiosity become you!
Let it go!
Stop!
Now!
I mean it...!

Sigh...What can be done? Curiosity is the victor...as always!..Still reading right? ok...fine! I guess I'd better write something so as to satify your curiosity. But let me warn you...again...stop reading!

Ok here goes...

"Once upon a time, there was a cat. And the cat was an extremely curious cat. But that I mean that the cat had a curious nature, and not that the cat was of a curious disposition that it made other cats stare at him going "Ye gods! What a curious cat!" No. It wasn't that sort of curiousity. If you know what I mean. Anyway, this cat, the curious one, not the one with the curious disposition, was taking a stroll through the kitchen. As it passed, it noticed the fire in the fireplace. As it had never seen a fire before, (being new to the scene and all that...) it took a long look at it and said "What the F*** is that?" (as we all know, cats are pretty vain creatures, and they think thay can say pretty much anything on TV or err...Internet...its all the same to them) Anyway, the stupid cat was entranced by the flames licking the black couldron and ventured to investigate the source of this enchantment. It went closer, and closer. The heat increasing with each step. Until its face was nearly touching the flames...

After that...I'm afraid the story tethers out. By the way, I've no idea what happens to the cat. I did a google search as well; but the story of how "Curiosity killed the cat" is not in existence. Weird huh!

Anyway, it wasn't my fault you read it. I told you not to.

Tata for now!