stephanieNY

At the same time that I walked out of the architecture school on campus today, a young guy left the engineering school on his phone. We merged paths and I overheard his phone conversation as he walked behind me across campus. It went a little something like this (read with inflection at the end of each statement):

"I can't believe we have to deal with architects...Engineers and architects are like so different...Architects don't really know how to build things...All they do is design something that looks good...We are the ones that need to actually build it, like make sense of it, and put it together so it doesn't fall down."

Yeah, you're kind of right. That is more-or-less how things work. I'll design something and you make sure it stays upright. I was tempted to ask him why he wanted to be a structural engineer if he felt so inconvenienced by architecture. I didn't because (well, I wouldn't) but this monologue suddenly turned into another that involved a girl that was giving him "mixed signals" and wouldn't return his call. Heehee.