Any Purdue EE/EET/ECET?
3When I started Purdue or shortly after one of my lab partners introduced me to woot via a wootoff I think during a lab. Must have been 2004 or 2005 freshman year. Let’s not get into why we were looking at that during a lab. Our projects were excellent. I’m sure.
If you are of that era do you know what the Purdue EE “theme song” is?
If you don’t… do not Google it at work. In modern context it’s a little dark…
- 11 comments, 16 replies
- Comment
My coworker is a Purdue grad, but probably 10 or more years earlier than you. Hist degree is something like Electronics Technology. Should I ask him, or would that conversation be NSFW, especially when WFH and all conversations are through text based chat. He has told me stories of the diagnostics labs.
I also found Woot as a freshmen in an engineering college. Not in a lab, but there were some internal web sites run by students. The homepage to one of them had a list of ‘cool’ sites. That is how I found Woot, Fark, and other cool sites.
@fibrs86 it used to be one of those things you just had on your hard drive from college. It’s made it to you tube.
It opens with"shots ring out across the mall" which… Has become less funny since then/not the sort of thing most people want to hear blaring out if they aren’t in on the joke.
Haha, that brings back some memories! I forgot about the theme song. My room mate in the dorms was an EE, and I was in ME, and taking my intro EE classes at the time!
EET/ECET '01! (searches hard drive) Yup… Purdue_EE_Theme_Song.mp3
@mikeleemm it’s made it to youtube but the whole “shots ring out across the mall” bit might rub people the wrong way even though it’s a joke.
@mikeleemm @unksol My other kid is at Virginia Tech, so yeah.
@unksol Honestly had completely forgot about it until I saw this post, which was also very strange to see on Meh and also calling out EET/ECET.
@mikeleemm I think lots of EET/ECET started off in EE/were exposed to it. That engineering intro class the first year/the building/208 and the lecture hall. Before you figure out it’s way more fun to make things than do theory lol
My son is currently filling out his application to Purdue. Write him a recommendation?
@sammydog01
Perdue rocks. It’s kinda “the original astronaut uni”, isn’t it?
Hope he makes it.
Purdue turns out great theoricians.
Perceptions are a crazy thing. Somewhere along this forum I picked up the idea that you were in the older crowd, and here you are just a wee one, in college a full decade after me. I’m mildly surprised trading MP3s on campus was still a thing by then lol.
@djslack Or could have gone back to school at an older age… Lots of non-18-22 folks in college.
@Kidsandliz yes, but they’re not usually on campus trading MP3s. Anything is possible, though, and the thought did cross my mind. I could once again be making an incorrect assumption.
@djslack if you must know I’m going to be 35 this year. I’m just not very millennial… Happen to be just old enough to have that mix of knowing what things are cause … Duh who doesn’t know that. and knowing what new things are but being annoyed by some of their stupidity. And disliking social media.
I think I still have a Sony Walkman portable CD player somewhere sitting in a box of junk… I wonder if it still works…
@unksol we’re not that far apart, about 8 years. Like I said, perception is a funny thing. Sorry, I wasn’t trying to doxx you or anything.
My first traffic accident was just a few days after I’d gotten my first car, I hit a parked car three doors down from my house because I was trying to both drive and get the right track cued up on the Discman in the passenger seat connected to a cassette adapter in the car stereo. Because you have to have priorities, right? My CD player, too, might be in a box of junk at my parents house.
@djslack lol I don’t care/not the first time someone has thought I behave older that I am. Most of the people I work with are much older than I am.
My first/only crash that is on record as my fault was a 1990 Plymouth Acclaim that my dad sold to me for $500 when I could drive…because I did most of the work to replace the head gasket. I still say they ran a changing red light to hit me but no way to prove it.
That wrecked it but I took the engine out and dropped it in the donor. That made it the year till college and got a 1999 Saturn SL.
She’s made it to 250K+ miles but now has a bad rod bearing… So naturally I bought a 1997 Expedition for $400. That has a cassette deck.
Gluten for punishment I guess
I like their chicken
@ELUNO and I like their pain.
I don’t want to say I’m old, with all this talk about finding Meh when you were at Purdue, when I started my EE studies at Purdue, the Internet did not exist. Some of us got to play around with something called ARPA Net
@ajdillon I do know what that is and appreciate Purdue’s long history. Some of the fun is just the old stuff that every one went through. Combined with knowing the campus/buildings/labs.
I assume you got to see the nuclear reactor and the coal fired power plant/turbines
@unksol The big thrill in my day was the aeronautic guys had the contract to maintain Hugh Hefner’s airplane - The Big Bunny!
It just occurred to me that something many people don’t know about Purdue, everybody knows about all the astronauts, but Orville Redenbacher was a Purdue grad (Agronomy 1928)
@ajdillon i did know that but the Purdue ag school/vet school(while is also famous/impressive) is on the south end of campus and not visited much by the engineers since that’s all up on the north end.
Had a few classes down there. Also did a class at the airport for pilots license. Unfortunately no Howard Huges type plane to see. Worked student security patrol so wandered the entire campus at night for a while.
@unksol We used to run down to the ag site cause it was the cheapest place to buy eggs, although you had to hold your breath in and out cause it smelled pretty bad
On a slightly different, but related topic, what campus pranks did all you engineering students pull while you were on campus? A number of my friends and several cousins were engineers (and I took a couple of engineering classes) and the stuff they came up with and pulled off was, quite honestly, amazing at times. Took creativity, expertise and deviousness.
@Kidsandliz one of mine consistently makes shitty clickbait top ten college pranks articles to this day, and was at one point discussed on NPR. Right up there underneath glorious exploits at Caltech and MIT. Not fessing up to it here right now but it’s out there.