-finding metal in my clothes
-finding metal in my hair
-finding metal in my skin
-all of the above, but for fiberglass, bondo, etc
-the nice farmers tan I managed to get from spending so much time in our shop, four floors underground
-soap with pumice (and acetone/gasoline for those tough stains)
-the way I smell
-the fact that my girlfriend is still putting up with me (nevermind, I now second whoever's signature that says "SAE: when you just can't get rid of a girlfriend)
-getting to the shop in the morning... and leaving in the morning
-not knowing what day it is
-my grades
-the lung cancer I probably already have
-the girls (oh wait....)
-the good friends I've made, and will have for the rest of my life

Feel free to add to the list

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Mikey Antonakakis,

-Listening to senior members say "You don't even know. Back when I was a freshman..."
-Telling freshmen "You don't even know. Back when I was a freshman..."
-Skipping class tomorrow to test on a karting track
-The blank stares I get when I tell people that I'm on the school race team. "We have a race team?"
-People asking if I'm on the go-kart team.
-The people that come in our shop and ask if we'll fix their car, truck, motorcycle, scooter, moped, bicycle, skateboard, rollerblades, lawnmower, weedwhacker, ATM, jet turbine, computer, and a few more I can't think of. And all of those have happened at least once.

- The weird looks i get from people when i walk from the machine shop to our office with random parts. (4 tires around each arm, half-welded exhaust, uprights, a-arms, etc.)

listening to "im on a boat" 4 million times a day

-Buying oil from Meijer (24 hour dept store) at 2am
-Making a Jinga game out of the overflowing trash cans
-Falling asleep on the creeper while under the car

quote:

Originally posted by kasaba:
listening to "im on a boat" 4 million times a day

Some things are universal

I got my swim trunks
And my flippy floppies

quote:

Originally posted by Discretely elite:
-Falling asleep on the creeper while under the car

Our creeper is the floor lol

quote:

Originally posted by Mikey Antonakakis:

quote:

Originally posted by Discretely elite:
-Falling asleep on the creeper while under the car

Our creeper is the floor lol

Our creeper is a junior who is named Kyle.



Best,
Drew

I got a nautical themed pashmina afghan...

-I love never being satisfied with a design and just going damn it that will have to do.
-Brake cleaner, they should sell it as an acne treatment.
-Picking up hot steel with holey welding gloves and burning your fingers.
-Seeing the crazy things newbies do and going wtf what were you thinking (having done similar things when I was a newbie).

Cheers

Olly

ACME Racing
UNSW@ADFA

If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me.

- Having mates who graduated years ahead of me with A's ringing and asking my help for their jobs.
- Looking at our first car and going "shit it still runs"
- Not going to class, get assignments after they are due, busting a all nighter and getting over 80%
- Falling asleep: On the chassis table, on the ground next the car, leaning on the lathe tool post, on the toilet, at the traffic lights, while driving, welding, etc.
- Having my mail redirected to the workshop.
- +1 on the friends

quote:

Originally posted by Drew Price:

quote:

Originally posted by Mikey Antonakakis:

quote:

Originally posted by Discretely elite:
-Falling asleep on the creeper while under the car

Our creeper is the floor lol

Our creeper is a junior who is named Kyle.



Best,
Drew

Oh in that case our creeper is our president, Ryan


I [really like] a mermaiiiiiiiiid

-megasquirt
-autotune
-T-Pain

-ungineering
-that healthy welding tan
-that's what she said jokes
-getting pissed when the first thing people ask is 'what kind of mileage does it get'
-learning how to build pretty much anything
-getting epoxied to things
-questionable use of the mappgas torch

Having to machine the fuel rail twice

Having the fuel rail warp from welding heat twice
(bastardized aluminum)

Living with your sister because school is out and you're still machining

Metal Chips in your beard

60/40 Rosin Core Solder

South Bend Lathes that need to be rebuilt

Re-Loading the OS on the Ez-Path
(I spent two weeks tracking down a 15 year old keyboard so I could hit a Y key!)

Learning you are allergic to raw carbon fiber after hauling the seat home

Kum and Go 200 oz Mugs

Moving shops in the middle of fabrication

EDIT:
The weird crap that happens after hour twenty
(When a full grown man who now works on Nuclear Reactor design runs around telling people that they kicked his dog in an Indian accent, that cannot happen any other place)

This message has been edited. Last edited by: overdrive535,

-sex while smelling like lathe coolant
-late night slushie runs where everyone drives their own car so we essentially have a race
-impersonating Claude while doing QC
-asking freshmen to touch things that have just been welded
-actually touching it when I was a freshman
-being excited to leave the shop at 1:45 so we can make last call at the bar in shop clothes

- starting a team with $250 CAD, no shop, a few mates and a ton of enthusiam
- seeing most of the mates disappear as their enthusiasm dies
- building a car with just four people
- breaking another cutter due to total lack of machining skills
- making fun of "juniors" for breaking another cutter due to total lack of machining skills
- fixing juniors' fudge-ups
- sleeping in a Penske rental truck at Michigan with six other dudes (because we're broke)
- the smell inside the Penske truck after three days of competition

quote:

Originally posted by Mikey Antonakakis:

-not knowing what day it is

^So true


FlavorPacket you are very sick. Mixing formula and sex is this most disgusting thing i can imagine. Specially when you smell like machining coolant. Makes me gag just thinking about it.



My formula favs:

That we play the Daft Punk station on pandora 20/24 hrs a day.

That i can open any door in the school with a Qdoba card or a piece of sheet metal.

That in the last month we have gone through more oil then E-85.

Talking in a Borat voice non stop. Even in serious conversation.

Bitching non stop about CoG, weight, and yaw. Even though i am a powertrain guy.

Putting every failed electrical component in the microwave and claiming "its going to fix it"

Holy hell, being an alum, this thread brought a tear to my eye.

-being asked 'how fast does it go?' 1.2 million times
-'I slept with your sister' jokes (usally a joke)
-balsa wood airplane+gas+match = poor man's fireworks
-justifying a comfortable seat with the reason that I will at some time sleep in it
-Competing with team mates for who could pick up a girl at a bar using only 'I build racecars' as an opening line
-Always smelling like machining oil

My friends still call the roadster I'm building a "go-kart" and I still want to punch them in the face.

-being asked if we've ever taken it on an oval

-volunteering to sit in the chassis during the 3am alignment for driving the next day because it will probably be the only sleep I get all night

-Falling asleep in the back seat of your car at 4:00 A.M. then waking up at 6:30 to load the trailer you just bought and leave for California driving all the way through strait, cuz your car still wasn't running.