I'm way more mature after university than I was before, although its hard to tell whether it was university or being left to fend for myself after my parents moved to Europe that did it. I drink in moderation (moderately) and I'm a huge safety nerd. I'm always telling my girlfriend and friends and strangers that what they are doing is unsafe and that they shuld remedy it. This is coming from the guy who decided to play soccer on avenue road just north of queens park after century club. We uprooted trees from the club monaco and used them as goal posts.

I think my problem with the engineering phenomenon is that its such a group thing... you're just being initiated into some weird nerdy club that defends itself by saying they drink alot. When I was in first year we did it the old fashioned way... we met people and made friends with them and then went out and got loaded... none of this dye-yourself-purple-and-get-drunk-with-other-engineers-because-everyone-else-is-doing-it crap. And nbow that grade 13 is done I bet all the drinking events are going to be phased out. So hooray for engineers, you get to parade around like a pack of fools with a hard hat chained to your belt while all the artsies make fun of you and then hang out with all the hot chicks. Maybe I'm just a jaded artsy though...

PS. I'm thinking of getting an 06 khs flite 100 from europe bound ($540). Anyone have anything good or bad to say about it? pedals, saddle and wheels would be swapped right away (my girlfriend could make use of the wheels). The stock components are pretty much generic alloy, and the truvativ crqanks look like they could be a bit dicey, but nevertheless better than my poor old fuji which has started to try to kill me on a regular basis.

Keith, do you have any road or track frames in the 58-60cm range? I pretty much need to replace the frame/fork/headset/bb/cranks on my commuter, which makes me think an off-the-shelf bike may not be that much more in the end.