I've been going to an engineering university for a couple of semesters now. It is 80% male. I'm sure the types of guys I'm about to mention exist at every university, but I think I was able to come to notice them a bit faster due to the proportionately large number of males in my school.
I now present, the types of guys you find in an engineering school!
1. The guys who don't pay attention to you because you are a girl. For those of you who have seen Doubt, the priest in the movie is the perfect example of this type of guy. How he really had no respect for the nuns at all. On several occasions I was talking with some of my friends, or was going to but then this type of guy starts talking with them. Then if I tried saying anything, my friends would hear me but I'd be virtually non-existent to the misogynist douche bag.
2. The guys who act friendly and subtly flirt with you, then cease all contact when they learn that you aren't single. I've had this happen to me with a number of guys. Just when I'm starting to think we could possibly become friends, the guy stops saying hi to me. If I say hi to him he won't be that talkative. This has always happened soon after I mention having a boyfriend. Wow its nice to know you only saw me as a potential fuck, but thanks for having the decency of backing off.. and not being like the next type of douche I'm about to mention..
3. The douche bags who continue to flirt with you even after learning that you are not single or have absolutely no interest in them what-so-ever. Frederik Zoller from Inglorious Basterds is a near perfect example of this type of douche bag. He tries to be cool and nice but he's far too stupid to realize that any normal French woman (let alone a Jew in hiding) would want noting to do with him because he's a Nazi occupying her country!
Gaston is another perfect example of this type of douche! He just won't leave Belle alone. I've had experiences with douche bags like that. The worst case is this one guy who'd try and make small talk but end up insulting me half the time in an effort to look cool or smooth. This guy had such horrible flirting skills he actually asked me if I brushed my hair so he'd have an excuse to brush it out of my face.
4. The nice guys (opposite of douche bags), they occasionally hold open doors for you, will let you have the empty seat on the subway, and are friendly towards you. Why can't the rest of the male population be like these guys!?
They may have subtly flirted with you, but you can tell their main focus is to become your friend. Once they find out you have a boyfriend, they'll stop subtly flirting with you. I'm very glad these guys exist. It's always such a relief to run into one of them after douche bag number 3 has been trying to make small talk with you. Typically more of them (about 60%) already have girlfriends.
5. The nice guys that are somewhat less friendly. You don't talk with them that much, but they're amusing to be around, even though you aren't always in on the conversation. All of these guys have friend potential! These guys do have the same types of conversations they have on Bing Bang Theory. I kid you not. A group of guys I know had the Tapioca Pudding vs. Chocolate Pudding argument two months BEFORE that episode of the show aired.
6. The international guys (girls too for this one). What these guys do is stick together and talk to each other in their own language. That's really all I know about them. In my school they're mostly from Japan or India and there's a few from Korea.
7. The incredibly attractive grad student/TA.. that well ... you have a boyfriend and he probably has a girlfriend. Forget it. He's one of the grad students proctoring the math exam and you really hope you'll get to hand your paper in to him.. only to get stuck giving it in to a
girl TA! WTF there are hardly any girls at school anyway..
Ok this doesn't exactly fall into a group.. oh well.. at least these guys are fun to look at.
YES, there are some very attractive guys at engineering schools. I'm just warning you that they are all geeks. Even the ones that get offended when you call them a geek, they're just having trouble accepting that being a geek is a good thing. If they weren't geeks they'd be at a university that offered more than just engineering, math and science.
Do any of you go to engineering schools? If so, have you run into these types of guys?
Or have you run into these types of guys in a more liberal arts oriented school?
Gaston is another perfect example of this type of douche! He just won't leave Belle alone. I've had experiences with douche bags like that. The worst case is this one guy who'd try and make small talk but end up insulting me half the time in an effort to look cool or smooth. This guy had such horrible flirting skills he actually asked me if I brushed my hair so he'd have an excuse to brush it out of my face.
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WHO is that lovely boy on the motorcycle??
omgosh I was going to go to an engineering school. Rensselaer to be specific, but BU gave me more money... BUT I am attending BU's college of engineering, so I see what you mean about the types of guys. ESPECIALLY the first one -.-
Those kids of guys are always everywhere :)
I went to a private tech university, and most of my friends are male computer scientists or engineers who went there, too. This post is really true for most of the people I met in college. The nice guys there were usually very socially awkward, though.
@mudkiwi@xanga - pretty sure that's johnny depp.
yes, i have met these types of guys at my school because we have an engineering school in addition to our regular arts and sciences school. this post made me chuckle. it was really entertaining to read!
Uhh, I think I fall into the category of #4.
Yay!
HAHA i worked at children's hospital of philadelphia - had to walk through upenn's campus and drexel's campus right at both schools' engineering schools. The boys would walk past and their eyes would dart... not to my chest or shoes... but to my shoes or the ground. it was both hilarious and disheartening. penn is an ivy league school but honestly, the drexel engineering boys were worse. it was hilarious. i felt like megan fox.
this made me laugh. where are the WoW LAN party guys, eh!??! eh!??! XD love the photos too :D
I've been to five different colleges(an Art College, A Tech School, A Big University, Community College & a Small State School) and there were guys like that at each of those schools. So from my expereince you can find them everywhere.
I think the only thing missing from your list is the trust fund kid whos way to dumb to be in the major they're in & doesn't care about school, but somehow squeak by & graduate.
yep, went to an engineering high school and i'm now attending a college famous for its tech-y stuff... and i've met all those kinds of guys (except #1, lucky me!). and now i'm dating one of those incredibly hot grad students ;) haha
@Leitey@xanga - what's wrong with being in the friend zone? i would really like it if more guys kept me in their friend zone instead of their potential fuck zone.
OMG!!! No wonder I hate men and all my friends are women. I wouldn't last 5 minutes in that school!!! Engineer's are the WORST when it comes to women. They are almost as bad as scientists.
It is so extremely funny how most of the time the so called "smarter" a guy is or thinks he is, the worst luck he has with women. These are the dorks who try and figure women out logically. LMAO! Riiight, trying to figure a woman out with logic is like trying to play golf with a baseball bat. Haha. lol AWESOME post! Absolutely HYSTERICAL!!! :)
I went to an engineering school, but went through a liberal arts program, so I don't so much know about these guys. I was also super shy and barely talked to the guys, thus wouldn't have learned which groups they fall into. Unfortunately.
Oh, and, for the record, there is absolutely nothing wrong with geeks. I am one, and I married one
-Katie
These guys are everywhere.
my school is extremely popular for engineering students. the guys i've seen would turn down a party with tons of ladies to play dota in their rooms. -_-
my ex was a #4 in engineering.
i find engineer guys to be very responsible, honest and hard working.
i love them.
I'm going to a school for automotive technology. There are 2 girls in my classes, both fun, and very hardworking, smart, and one is quite cute and was flirting with me the other day lol :)
Everyone works hard basically. All the guys I work with there are good at what they do, and will keep working till they're completely done with whatever they have to do. I try to apply the same attitude towards other things, not just working on cars. It's gotten me pretty far.
#2: He may not have been looking for a "fuck". And we don't know what you were doing. We don't know that you weren't leading him on, and then felt somewhat surprised and maybe took a bit of space?
#3: This is open ended. How do we know he wasn't joking, teasing, and you took it as flirtatious?
my husband takes online classes for engineering, so i don't think he counts. haha
OHHHHHH! im majoring in chemical engineering and im pretty good with women so that just voided EVERYTHING!
isn't this all types of guys? why limit it to just engineers?
@ChevalierSeingal - Piss off, wanker.
@Hallelujah_Haptism@xanga - *high five*
@ChevalierSeingal - sounds like you're better off chasing after guys
@gayad - It is pretty easy to say that over the internet TOUGH GUY!!!
I promise you, you would not even DARE to say that eye ball to eye ball TOUGH GUY!!!
@mudkiwi@xanga - That would be my husband. <3