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y  Geologists are 'scientists' with an unnatural obsession with rocks and alcohol. Often too

intelligent to do monotonous sciences like biology, chemistry, or physics, geologists devote their

time to mud-worrying, volcano spotting, fault poking, bouldering, dust-collecting, and high-risk

colouring.

y  You are someone who stares at the bathroom tile trying to fi...nd the unit cell.

y  You are someone who spots dipping beds, triangular facets, karst topography, and bottle neck

valleys in movies.

y  You are someone who caries a pocket knife to scratch rocks with.

y  You are someone who can come up with scientific names like dike, joint, infinite onion, and in

and out of phase thrusting.

y  You are someone who goes on a field trip and promptly destroys everything in sight.

y  You are someone who employs a log log scale graph.

y  You are someone who thinks an r-square value of .5 is acceptable.

y  You are someone who knows what Gandalfs Knob refers to.

y  Y

ou spend more than 4 hours in Room 103 or 201.y  You are someone who knows way too much about sand ripples.

y  You are someone who owns a pet rock and is not eight.

y  You are someone who only includes people in photos for scale, and has more pictures of his/her

rock hammer and lens caps than of family and friends.

y  You are someone with a collection of beer cans/bottles that rivals the size of his rock collection.

y  You are someone who considers a "recent event" to be anything that has happened in the last

hundred million years.

y  You are someone who eats dirt and claims to be "getting an estimate of grain size"

y  You are someone who will willingly cross an eight-lane interstate on foot to determine if the

outcrops are the same on both sides.

y  You are someone who hires student assistants with an eye to whether they can run slower so

the bears get them first.

y  You are someone who looks at scenery and tells you how it formed.

y  You are someone who wears hiking boots constantly, even for formal functions, and

occasionally sandals.

y  You are someone who plans extra time on trips to investigate road cuts along the way.

y  You are someone who almost crashes his/her car looking at road cuts while driving.

y  You are someone who can identify the chemical formula for Cummingtonite...and chuckles like a

 junior-high kid every time.

y  You are someone stuck on the side of the road without a spare tire because it was removed to

make more room for samples or alcohol (or the spare is already being used on the other side of 

the van).

y  You are someone who rocks the party and is the schist everywhere they go.

y  You are someone who can say, "Gneiss Cleavage" or talks about slaty cleavage and means it in a

non-derogatory sense.

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y  You are someone who takes special interest in your granite countertops in the kitchen and after

a few minutes will even produce hand lenses before giving other guests an igneous petrology

lesson.

y  When helping someone move and you ask "is this box full of rocks?" They answer "yes, be

careful."