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by hinkley 2607 days ago
There was some CivE professor that people liked to quote who talked about how he had no qualms flunking people from his classes because a degree in Civil Engineering was a license to kill.

If you let dumbasses through the system, they will build a pedestrian bridge in a hotel lobby that fails and kills a hundred people at a party.

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For those who didn't catch the reference : Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnvGwFegbC8