Engineering on a trapeze

A group of engineering students from the University of St. Thomas, MN, are learning about forces and movement by going to a circus and playing with trapezes, German wheels, human pyramids, and a trampoline. Instead of swinging a pendulum in a lab, the students are the pendulums as they swing through the air on a trapeze.

I think that's a pretty cool way to get your college credits. I actually took classes at this circus before (Circus Juventas, a youth circus in St. Paul), though I was a globes person (the picture is me :) not aerial. It's pretty fun, and if you get to learn about physics and dynamics while you're at it, even better.

Yup, that'd been a really cool class.