/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7192834]

Well /sci/, do I have a story for you.

I am a nuclear engineer at the University of Illinois, and today was my first day doing research in the nuclear engineering lab. I assist a doctoral student with... things (I don't want to say because anyone who knows me would immediately know who I am). I can assure you though, it is nuclear engineering stuff.

Anyway, last night, I had to read an article on this special piece of equipment I would be calibrating. I had to find the article and stuff myself, so I googled it. For whatever reason, I could not find the EXACT piece of equipment, but I found one that I assumed was the same thing (it had a dash and then some numbers after the product name, I figured it should be basically the same).

I read this whole instruction manual on how to calibrate it and stuff, and it ends up being like twenty pages long. I read it slowly and carefully to make sure I remember everything and will be able to do my job tomorrow.

So this morning, I head to the lab to meet my professor, who asks me if I read what I was supposed to and will know what to do, to which I respond yes. Despite the twenty pages of reading, the procedure was actually pretty simple (or so it seemed).

I was led into the adjacent room, which was dimly lit. The walls were all concrete (cheap material with good halving thickness in case things go wrong) and the building itself just felt musty. He sat me down in front of a machine saying, "I'll be in the next room if you need any help."

Well let me tell ya /sci/, I needed help. This machine didn't look much at all like what I had read about. At first, I wasn't even sure if it had ANY similar functions. After a couple minutes of close inspection, I determined that it was a little similar to what I had read about; close enough that I was fairly certain I could calibrate it and make a good first work impression on my professor (he knew my past work and academic history, but I wanted to show him I would be a valuable asset).

[Anonymous No.7192835]

>>7192834
I switched the thing on, and was greeted by a constant humming noise after a few seconds. So far so good. I first tuned the voltage to the correct setting, and everything still seemed peachy. Unfortunately, I failed to realize a small light on the back that was flashing to indicate an inconsistency with some of the frequency settings.

Had I read the CORRECT manual, I would have noticed the light (who puts an important light in the back, anyways?), and I would NOT have tried to tune the resistance next. Well I did, and I began to hear a quiet whining noise that started to grow louder. If anything, I could say that this sound was rare, but I thought, "Nahh, forget it. Yo Homes, to Bel-Air!" I pulled up to the house at bout seven or eight, I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo home, smell ya later!' I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there! To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air!

[Anonymous No.7192839]

goddamnit OP

[Anonymous No.7192841]

>>7192834
Haven't heard this one before, props OP

[Anonymous No.7192842]

7/10 it's ok

[Anonymous No.7192843]

>>7192835
you got me you son of a bitch

[Anonymous No.7192847]

>>7192835
fuck you.

[Anonymous No.7192851]

Toppest of keks 10/10

[Anonymous No.7192852]

>>7192847
>>7192843
why you guys so mad though

[Anonymous No.7192866]

>>7192834
goddamn it OP/10
>made me chuckle

[Anonymous No.7192898]

lol that was oddly refreshing

op's still a fag

[Anonymous No.7193010]

>>7192834
nice one OP, made me waste my time from research for a little

[Anonymous No.7193024]

The original story was good. This is some named-duckroll-level lame and you just lost the game.

[Anonymous No.7193055]

Dammit. Did not see that coming one bit/10.

[Anonymous No.7193677]

>>7192834
triggered