Quoting Timothy Heald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> Just wondering, why chemical engineering?  Figured you would be a
> computer science type.

I always wented to do some engineering study. But I couldn't decide 
which one, so I first choose which university I wanted to attend and 
then looked around which study was the broadest to postpone a choice a 
bit more. And chemical engineering pretty much is one of the broadest 
studies possible.
I mean, if I wanted I could do my final thesis in the Process Control 
group and be researching computerized control systems that run on one 
of those big Honeywells. They actually have a bunch of computer science 
students doing that as well. Or write some simulation program for a 
nuclear reactor at the nuclear chemistry group :)

But I have pretty much come to the conclusion that it is all the same 
anyway. Find the problem, analyse it, find a solution, implement the 
solution. That I have received some formal training in how to read a 
flowchart of an oil refinery makes reading that easier, but also the 
reading of a flowchart of a computer program. And, to be honest, I am 
not impressed by most of the computer science students here.

So I am now working on the development of new silicone formulations for 
medical applications. And I like it. The medical side puts some 
perspective on what is really important.

Jochem
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