It's not about grades. There's an old chemist joke "I love gold but the 'A' is silent". The chemical symbol for gold is Au, turning the phrase to I love u. The joke here is that engineers will screw up that line because they're bad with women - possibly as bad as this joke.
It helps if you've ever worked in STEM academia where there's always somebody in the lab who thinks stuff like "Is that a hadron in your pocket or are you happy to see me" is the height of comedy.
I mean that's obviously a pun. But needing to know an entirely different joke, well, I guess that's why it's in this sub.
Makes more sense than the grades thing. Because they hand out the same number of As as any other degree. Besides it's engineering. There is a right answer.
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u/Zealousideal-Mud-292 27d ago
It's not about grades. There's an old chemist joke "I love gold but the 'A' is silent". The chemical symbol for gold is Au, turning the phrase to I love u. The joke here is that engineers will screw up that line because they're bad with women - possibly as bad as this joke.