Length or Height!

[Riding the Train]

Two blondes were at a Texas A&M and were giving the assignment to measure the height of the flag pole. They headed out with their ladders and tape measures and they were falling off the ladders and dropping their tape measures, the whole thing was just chaotic.
Eventually an engineer notices what they are trying to do and decides to help them out. He pulls the flag pole out of the ground and measures it, gives the measurements to one of the blondes and walks away.
After he was out of sight, the blond said "thats just like an engineer, we are looking for the height and he gives us the length!"