Tan Vu computer science senior

Senior finds he has car trouble after experiencing weird noises, vibrations; decides to fix it himself

Wildcat: My name's Nathan and you're On the Spot. Where you off to?

Vu: Right now I'm going to go mess with my car.

Wildcat: Mess with your car? What's wrong with your car?

Vu: I think the wheel bearings are messed up. You start driving a certain mileage, and it starts to vibrate and it makes this weird · (Vu starts imitating his car's noises.)

Wildcat: That's crazy. My car's all ghetto too. It's making this weird noise. I have to have it looked at · see what's going on.

Vu: It took me forever to find out what the hell it was, so I put it on jack stands, and then I took off the tires and I started the car and revved it without them. It still made noises inside the bearings, so I was like, "Damn. This sucks." 'Cause bearings are hard to change.

Wildcat: I hate getting under cars when they're on stands because I always feel like they might fall.

Vu: Yeah. That's why you put stands under there. If you have brakes, put those on too.

Wildcat: Don't you ever feel like · what if the metal just crushed or something or ÷

Vu: Yeah. I feel like that when I'm torquing something really hard, like with a big tool wrench and then the whole car shifts and just, "I hope the whole car does not fall off."

Wildcat: Or if for three seconds, physics in the universe just ÷

Vu: Just collapses ÷ everything is not what it is supposed to be.

Wildcat: Exactly.

Vu: Something I don't want to think about. Being under a car, you know what I mean?

Wildcat: So what nationality are you?

Vu: I'm Vietnamese.

Wildcat: Oh really. North or South?

Vu: South · So what do you do, actually? You just walk around and interview people?

Wildcat: Yeah. They didn't know who else to give it to, so they chose the Hispanic.