Chemical Engineers

Chemical engineers, being chemical engineers, has been notoriously well-knowned to be highly competitive, to the extent that it amuses me. We not only run (literally) to the tutorial class with the best tutor, but we also ruthlessly seek for short cuts, desperately leeching tips from fellow friends and seniors, and also commit unethical behaviours. Perhaps it seems really subtle and insignificant, but chemical engineers would always try, to their best ability, to churn out the best results they could ever get, so their reports would look as perfect as always. I was highly amused in my chemical engineering lab just a few days back:

Taking out some sheet of paper and analyzing,

Person A: I need to do some creative accounting...
Me: huh? is that a module? i only heard of financial accounting..
Person B: tweak tweak
Me: ohhhhh i get it, it's a professional term for tweaking results!

Sigh, seems like in this course, results and grades matter more than anything else. I guess, that's the definition of perfection and success to many in the cohort. And that's not anything new and unusual.