This is a science college

Being a Biology student, I don't often get the chance to live the "typical Imperial student" experience. Although Biology has plenty of boys, they number roughly as many as the girls, which I think makes it Imperial's only subject with an even split between the sexes. Another thing Biology has plenty of is Asian students, but they're a minority: another rarity on campus. In other words, the demographics of my course wouldn't strike any observer as being particularly skewed, because they're not. However, this is Imperial, and this apparent normality is in fact an anomaly. Today, I visited the EEE department (for those not familiar with how we abbreviate our courses, that is to say most of you, that stands for Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and experienced Imperial's version of the ordinary.

It all started when Chris- the one from chocolate tasting, not the ginger one- and I were simultaneously complaining on Twitter about our sleep-deprived states. I suggested meeting for a coffee at lunchtime, which turned into an excursion to the Hummingbird Bakery when the queue in the library looked too daunting. Ignoring my protests, Chris bought me a black bottom cupcake, which is currently sitting on top of my telly patiently waiting to be eaten. We sat in the SAF having a gossip and discussing blogging. He has one of his own, and it's pretty good.
Two o' clock rolled around, and Chris had to dash off to a lecture. He studies Information Systems Engineering, or ISE for those who can't be arsed with all that typing; I expressed interest in attending a lecture, partly out of curiosity and partly out of boredom. I was warned against doing so, but since when did I heed warnings?

Once I'd finished my essay on lysosomes, which is the same length as the Wikipedia article on the subject and therefore cannot be made any longer, I sloped off to the EEE building to sit in a computer room and show Chris and Olly where my Twitter background came from before their lecture on signalling.
Upon entering the lecture theatre, the abnormal demographics of Biology became clear to me: the room was almost exclusively filled with Asian males. There were about five girls, myself included, and I was the only blonde one. All the Imperial clichés suddenly made sense.
Unsurprisingly, the lecture itself meant diddlysquat to me. I was never much good at Physics, never studied electronics, and haven't got an A-level in Maths, so I'm not in a good position to try to understand convolution. Someone proved the lecturer wrong, somehow, and I counted two sleeping people. Chris tweeted at me from his iPod under the table, and I resorted to digging out my book towards the end. Nevertheless, it was quite fun in a masochistic sort of way.

So, thanks to Chris, what looked set to be an averagely dull day was actually pretty interesting. He's a gem.