Re: Grease and waxes

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:36:27 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

So you believe that I am jealous of a man who is on welfare because he wasted his time in college simply avoiding the draft?

Well, college was more interesting than spending an unspecified number
of years having "read out" 4 libraries learning how to become an
engineer.  Just asking a college official what was involved in
becoming an engineer would probably have been easier, but some people
just have to do things that hard way.

06/07/2022
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/QNPNSofg064/m/Xaamy15iBQAJ>
"I would warrant that I've read more than 20 times more books than you
have. I read out three public libraries, the military library and all
of the books I used to gain the knowledge to become an engineer."

I just remembered a small detail about college libraries and text
books.  There were very few text books in the college or municipal
libraries.  The student was expected to purchase or borrow the
necessary books.  No library would allow anyone to checkout a text
book for the 10 or 12 week duration of a class. 

The library also couldn't stock all the textbooks needed by the
current engineering students.  The library also wouldn't be thrilled
if the professor changed the required reading material every few years
(which happened quite often to me).  Used books were available at the
college book store, but they were only useful until the next textbook
change.

That was the situation when I attended college (1965 to 1971) and has
changed over the years.  However, that doesn't matter, because Tom was
claiming to have "read out" 4 libraries before becoming an engineer
which would be in roughly the same time frame.

I'm not sure what Tom "read out" but it probably wasn't the same
textbooks that were used in the then current college courses because
the libraries didn't stock those textbooks.






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