(DISCLAIMER: I’m a relative Queen’s newbie. Any old-timers will have to forgive me for misrepresenting the Queen’s tradition if I misunderstood what I saw. Leave a comment with a correction!)
Witnessed on the way to the library today was one lonely first-year engineering student, clearly freezing cold, but nonetheless walking jacket-less across campus. Actually, her jacket was on the ground in front of her, as she kicked it through snow, sludge, and mud along her path.
I’m told that this is a Queen’s engineering tradition. First-years are not permitted to wear/(touch?) their leather, faculty-specific jackets until their first set of exams is completed. Keen to begin wearing them at the earliest possible moment, however, students pick up their jackets before their last exam and kick them across campus to the exam hall.
Engineers are bizarre.
Well, at UBC they paint a giant block of concrete with an equally large ‘E’ written on the sides. Either that or they suspend a VW Beetle off the side of the Golden Gate bridge in SF.
Engineers ARE bizarre indeed.
Shahrukh
Comment by Shahrukh Bakar — December 16, 2008 @ 5:48 am