"You can do math? Fuck chemical engineering. Do math." -Dad's friend when I told him that I was having doubts about chemical engineering. The first year of eng

"You can do math? Fuck chemical engineering. Do math." -Dad's friend when I told him that I was having doubts about chemical engineering. The first year of engineering at Texas A&M is mostly just stuff that you "need" to know, i.e. excel for Euler's formula. I got pretty bored and did poorly in the class. I was doing research at the time with a really prominent chemical engineer doing neat stuff. Asking around in the lab after a month of tedious lab work, everybody was just like this is basically the day to day life of chemical engineers. I talked to my dad's friend who was a chemical engineer and he said the above. I switched to math the next semester and haven't looked back since. Just my view on why I switched over.