Why I Am A Chemical Engineer
What I found out was that chemical engineers are generally much better looking than average (for eg. :Tunku Zara, the queen of Raja Nazrin Shah and Cindy Crawford, both of them are chemical engineers by training). They're smart, successful and drop dead gorgeous.
I heard about some guys from a university who studied chemical engineering. They believed that chemical engineers get approached easily and generally luckier about 43 times as often as most folks. But to me most of them hardly had a time to socialize. They have 0% social life and I believe the "fun department" in their brains, somehow had been deteriorated over time, as they get older.
Chemical engineers win more at cards, catch more fish and are beloved by kids and cats. They can work their dvd and set the clock on the microwave simultaneously. Their kids are brighter, their lawns are greener and their cars run better. Their daughters are prettier and their sons are better athletes. Their spouses are sweeter and their mothers-in -law hardly visit them coz they haven't had the foggiest idea what you do at work... LOLOL
Chemical engineers do things like save lives and generally they make a better world...hehehe.. (for eg. they're always trying to figure out how to reduce the oil prices by extracting more biofuels..LOL ) Anyway, when I looked around and it seemed to me that chemical engineers were clearly superior folks and I would be proud to be one. That is why I am a chemical engineer.
One of the most frequent questions that I have been asked is "How do chemists compare as scientists vs. chemical engineers?"
In my experience, chemical engineers like to come up with complex models that yield long equations. They then proceed to plug in typical values for this, that, and the other, and end up with something that still has no analytical solution. Not forgetting that if you can't make an equation work, one can always add/multiply by dimensionless number, or put a number to a 'funny' power 2/3rds or 3/4, etc, to get an answer....They use the equation to make a graph, and are pleased with themselves for doing something useful. They are thus engineers. Scientists, on the other hand, seek out things that are simple, elegant, beautiful, and useless... truth being more important than usefulness.
Chem Engineers are high tech plumbers - they move and make all the nasty things the chemists come up with from point A to B (economically, energy savings and without killing the neighborhood). They make all the wonderful chemicals they deal with affordable and useful. Plus, ChEngs make the big bucks!..LOL
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ReplyDeleteHahaha this answered why i am not a chemical engineer.. i think i was born to count money better than to bother what or how money was made of. You see masa saya kecik2 dahulu.. saya suka sangat nak tolong mak saya cuci pinggan, bukan nak bagi cuci betul pun, sebenaqnya nak main ayaq sabun bagi jadi buih and start counting the bubbles dan main jual2 air sabun dalam gelas as if it was some teh tarik. How i wish air buih sabun sedap dan buleh di minum, i can start selling and make money..LOL.. who knows one day chemical engineer like you can formulate something like that.. sure sendawa keluaq buih... LOL
Dear Bijou...
ReplyDeleteYour ideas always fascinate me..lolol..Actually I love bubbles coz I always have this erotic fantasy of immersing myself deeply in a bath tub fulls with bubbles..LOL