Orientation
I had my orientation yesterday. Boy, what a crap way to start.
Apparently there was a miscommunication so I was told to go at 10 when it actually starts at 9

0805 - My alarm rang. I turned it off and went back to sleep
0825 - I finally draged my lazy butt outta bad. Went to bathe.
0840-ish - Finished bathing, saw clock and thought. 'Dear God, I have one hour plus left!'
0850 - Stare at the floor of my bedroom zoning out.
0902 - Keegan called and asked where I am.
Me: At home.
Keegan: Orientation starting
Me:*#@&#@#$%&! *Grabs the nearest pair of shoes and runs out of the house*

Luckily, I arrived with time to spare.

The orientation was great! Well, the second half anyways cause we ended up playing a game made by the students.

At first it was sorta lame and time wasting. Abuthen, the real test came.

Are you an engineer?
In short, they gave us an egg, chopsticks, straws and rubberbands and told us to make sure our egg survived a drop from the first floor.

My group:
Myat, Daniel, Farhan, Johnny and I (Keegan unofficially)

Lemme just tell ya.
If you employed us to design a build a building,
Be prepared for the building to




COLLAPSE!

Basically, our idea was a bit stupid/smart and weird

We encased the egg in two layers of balloon. Firstly was air (contributed by Keegan till he was red in the face) The second layer was water to absorb the shock.

The two balloons would be suspended inside a cubic frame made by chopsticks.
The idea was for the frame to take the main fall and the water to absorbed the leftover shock.

Impressive indeed isn't it?
Everyone thought so, judging by the way they crowded around our group.

EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE WHEN WE MADE A MESS OF WATER, EGG AND BALLOON =.=




I suppose it would work if it were a metal frame welded together and the egg wrapped in duct tape instead of rafia string.

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