I dreamt last night that HWMBO and I were in Vermont, and we wanted to get away. We were at the Burlington train station (I haven’t been in Vermont to stay since 1964) and a train came with the header sign “MICE”. I told him that meant “Massachusetts Institute of Chemical Engineering” and it was thus going our way. We got on, but there was quite a crowd, so HWMBO and his luggage wer standing on the step, which had no doors. The train lurched and his bag fell off, and HWMBO got off to get it back. I was frantic, but I couldn’t stop the train. However, it did slow down so he managed to get back on. Then I woke up.
There is a building across the street from St. John’s Waterloo that has “MICE…..” in big letters on it, so perhaps that’s where I got the “MICE” from. However, where I got “Massachusetts Institute of Chemical Engineering” from I do not know. Perhaps best not delved into.
I’m not a chemical engineer, but while I don’t play one on teevee, I have been teaching them for the last twenty years.
my department is as named above — second longest department name at the university (second only to institute for history and philosophy of science and technology). “mice” is quite a punchy acronym, go for it!