How Do You Do, Fellow Engineers?

Ever met that engineering student who thinks metallurgy is the ultimate pickup line? 🤣 Nothing says "romance" like explaining how ferrite transforms into austenite at exactly 912°C! The iron-carbon phase diagram is basically the mechanical engineer's zodiac chart—except instead of determining if you're compatible with a Gemini, it tells you why your bike frame cracked. Next time you're at a party and someone starts explaining steel microstructures, just know they're not trying to be boring... they're just desperately trying to impress you with the only non-academic knowledge they've acquired in four years of college!

The ultimate metallurgy pickup line! While she's hoping for a boyfriend, he's ready to demonstrate his passion with a full-on blast furnace diagram. Nothing says "I'm marriage material" like knowing how to extract metal from ore at 1600°C! The pyrometallurgy nerd just turned "*Boyfriend*" into "here's a detailed schematic of how I spend my weekends." That's not just relationship goals—that's relationship melting points ! Forget roses and chocolates; this romance is forged in the fires of scientific obsession. Metal extraction has never been so... seductive? 🔥

The engineering joke that separates the nerds from the normies! While most people know RPM as "revolutions per minute," the French have a delightful linguistic quirk where they call it "tours par minute" (TPM). Non-English speakers get it immediately, but everyone else is left staring blankly like Toothless the dragon. It's basically the STEM version of an inside joke that makes engineers snicker while the rest of us pretend to understand. Next time someone mentions RPM, just nod knowingly and mutter "ah, oui, les tours..."

Physics students rejecting CBD (cannabidiol) but swooning over FBD (free body diagrams). The natural state of a physics student is to ignore recreational substances and instead experience euphoria when calculating forces on a rigid body. Nothing quite like the high of decomposing vectors and solving for equilibrium conditions. Some of us still have nightmares about forgetting to include friction in our calculations.

The existential crisis of every aerospace engineer. Parents fund a $200,000 education so they can weaponize the phrase "it's not rocket science" with technical accuracy. Meanwhile, orbital mechanics problems silently mock you from the corner of your room. The irony is that rocket science is actually just applied physics with more explosions and higher stakes. Your degree basically qualifies you to be professionally corrected by relatives who think they understand how planes stay up.

Engineers don't just solve problems—they critique the problem itself! While philosophers debate optimism vs pessimism and mathematicians precisely quantify the situation, engineers cut straight to the efficiency: "This container is wildly overengineered for its contents." Classic engineering mindset that bypasses the philosophical debate entirely and focuses on practical design considerations. The safety helmet really sells it too—because no good engineering analysis happens without proper PPE!