You Might be a Millikin Physics Major IF...


Your Professors ask you to build something that you can't pronounce
You have three Professors help you on one project
You measure the amount of sleep you get in minutes
You use AIM more for homework help than chatting with your friends
You have lack of sleeping contests with each other
Someone has accused you of being pure evil
You hate good news
You use the phrase, "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing." in a German Accent
The major phrases that you use are "and also", "Additionally", and "oh, by the way."
You actually avoid people just so you don't know anything
You lose your individuality
You have ever had to explain basic Newtonian mechanics to someone at two o’clock in the morning
You laugh when someone says they “feel” an answer
You avoid reminding your math professors of your major because you know they will take a jab at you every chance they get.
You are sold to the highest bidder in an auction
You are given no money, no resources, and no time and are expected to work miracles with it
You describe the amount of sleep you got that night by naming another Physics Major
Halloween is your favorite Holiday
You look at γ and see a break-dancing fish
You take 18 credits a semester and call that a light load
You have ever had a professor utter “maybe this is a bad idea” or “that should have been 7/8” twenty minutes after the fact
You can sit in one spot for 8 hours working on homework only to realize you still have another 4 hours to go
You round gravity from 9.8 m/s^2 to 10 just to make life easier
You despise your math teachers when they use gravity in terms of ft/s
You see no point in spending a hour creating a spreadsheet that does not work when everything could be done in 30 seconds with a calculator
You have calculated the time it takes to fall off the roof of LTSC - either for yourself, or others
You have no life - and you don't have time to prove it
You make the professor come and get you for class
You hate Excel with a passion
You can’t spell
You have ever had more than five people tell you the same Uranus joke in less than an hour
Your professors have stopped opening your e-mails because it usually means more work for them
You have become narcoleptic
You spend an entire Friday night having a party - however, the party is really cleaning an observatory
You know the amount of caffeine in every drink in the vending machines
You consider a night of relaxation to be when you only have six hours of work to do
You enjoy pain

You have funny shirts

You tell someone your major and they ask "physics is a major?"

You laugh at other peoples misery, only to realize you are in the same boat
You have slept in the Science Building on consecutive nights
There is delegating responsibilities on who's turn it is to make a decision
You hate the word "yes"
72 is the answer to all math problems - until your basic math skills kick in
You consider acts of terrorism so you can get rid of light pollution
You have a hard time drawing stick figures, so when it comes to 3 dimensional graphs you are SOL
You ask in a 100 level computer science class how to write a program that will give values on non-integer gamma functions

You have ever felt like a tele-marketer for calling high schools
You need more than one piece of paper to make this list
You plan on attending , are attending, or graduated from Millikin University
You print this list and post it on your door


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