A condition in which engineering, math, science, or other STEM majors have extreme difficulty talking to the opposite sex. Often these people are hold up in their "comfy zone", library, home, or some other quiet location studying. Because of this, people who suffer from Engineering Syndrome are single and lonely because their grades in college cannot afford to be stunted by parties or socializing.

Adj. Something that is expected to have a long lifespan by virtue of having existed for a long time, based on the lindy effect, named for the New York restaurant Lindy's, coined by Albert Goldman and popularized by Nassim Taleb.