h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

They're too busy doing mathematical things.
That's why I have no intention of joining the ranks, although I can't spell either.

What I should do and what I actually do are two entirely seperate things...

well, does the phrase less is more mean anything? actually i really liked you userpage and checked it out in a round about way by hearing about a 15 yearold wonderchild on swiv's userpage. i didn't know there were two of us. just kidding actually my user page is really boring and i will probably use you advice about sprucing it up.

More Means less?? Is that why you can pay more for a coke in the cinema, and get less than you would in a can??? Anyway, I'm not really a wonderchild, I'm just good at making people 'think' I am....

thanks for putting me on your hoopy frood list, it really means alot to me.(tear) (:

My fingers appear to work faster than my brain. I guess that's the problem with us engineers.

Oh and to dispell a myth, I do very little maths type stuff. In fact I spend most of my time playing with computers and most of that is with h2g2. Not a bad life if you ask me.

Oh ok, maybe I should opt in for an engineering life
NOT

No problem Kat, it was the least i could do...
So, Engineering is an all over easy life then??? Maybe I will take it up myself... What sort of things do you do, and what qualificationy thingy's are needed?

Good grades

bamm thats me out of the running for a job

Hey, not all of us have good grades. I get my end of year exam marks on Thursday and I really do think I may have flunked a hefty percentage. Especially maths. The trouble is, the lecturers intentionally make everything boring to discourage those seeking a good lifestyle. I know of 8 people who dropped out of my year (there's probably more). Anyway, Madmonk, I'd have thought you'd want to take up Computer Science, the way your page has turned out

And stop yawning, Swiv.

Hmm.... I probably will take computer Science, it's something that's appealled to me for a while, and I might take it up as a careery type thing. I'm about to embark on an epic reading of my fathers 'Turbo Pascal' Book, soo wish me luck.....

How do you know I'm yawning,
Just 'cos i'm planning to do a degree in English and History doesn't mean I'm not interested in other things

How do I draw a yawn?

I probably would have done English, if my school had done English Language as an A-level. I like writing, although too much alcohol has suppressed my imaginative side quite a bit. I also toyed with the idea of Archaeology for a while (probably far too much Indiana Jones when I was little). I actually thought about being a science fiction writer for a while as well.

Is there such a thing as a yawny? If there is it'd probably look something like this :-0

They should set is up to do little picture of yawns, they won't do stickiy out tongues either. ARe they against the rules.

I do English lit, so we studied an Anglo-Irishman, a Canadian and 2 Americans

One of the Americans didn't happen to be F Scott-Fitzgerald did it? We had to study The Great Gatsby for GCSE. Or did you study Mark Twain?

F.Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby comment and appreciation paper is this afternoon actually.

The other was Sylvia Plath - how screwed up

Sorry for taking a while to reply here.

I'm an electronic engineer and I spen most of my time sitting at a computer writing bits of code to describe my circuit and then getting the computer to do all the hard bits. I got 2 D's and an E at A-level (the E was in maths) so I couldn't do the course I had wanted to (a sound engineering course) but engineering is a piece of piss to get into at most places. Good grades are for the top uni's who can afford to be picky.

I spen a year at Oxfor poly, hated the place but found I enjoyed electronics so changed to do Microcomputer Systems Engineering at Glasgow after working my butt of at the poly.

Most engineering graduates will find a half decent job as getting a third in an engineering subject is regarded more highly than getting a first in most arts subjects.

As for me, I worked hard and I'm nowing working for a doctorate, but that was what I'd alwasy wanted to do so that's OK.

The average engineering graduate canstart on around 16K a year but after a few years training this can easily be doubled. At present, jobs for experienced engineers in my field offer salaries of around 45K.

Oh, it also helps if you an drink copious amounts of beer and still attend meetings the next day.

oh luvly. I'm sure I can handle the last bit. Maybe i can persuade my mother to let me get a bit of practise in.... maybe I shouldn't have said that...

Most of the engineers I know are real ale drinkers so maybe that last sentance should have read copious amounts of very strong beer.

And as for your mum, my excuse was always, if I don't practice I'll never be perfect and then where will I end up? Worked for me anyway. (oh it helps if you have a cheeky grin on your face while saying it).

I'll try that, you never know, it might work