You might be a Chemical Engineer if...!!!

• You have a favorite pump manufacturer.
• You are planning to install a scrubber on you kitchen chimney.
• Somebody mentions stimulation and you take it as simulation.
• You can size distillation column in head but need a pencil and paper to calculate tip for dinner.
• You associate word beautiful and sexy with a butterfly valve.
• While extinguishing a small fire using a CO2 cylinder you are thinking of the temperature drop due to Joule-Thomson effect.
• You see a good design and still have to change it.
• You know who invented Jell-O.
• You think "cuddling" is simply an unproductive application of heat exchange.
• You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
• You have any of the following personalized items:
  • Hard hat
  • Safety goggles
  • Calculator case
  • Slide rule

• You know the direction the water swirls when you flush.
• You'd really like to have a T-shirt that says "Chemical Engineers Do It In Fluidised   Beds"
• You think the value of a book is directly proportionate to the amount of tables, charts and graphs it contains.
• Your three-year-old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory.
• You have a psychrometric chart on the side table next to your bed
• While washing your face in your bathroom you holler to your wife that today the water flow is "laminar".
• You find your wife getting late for the party and you start lecturing her on "Mean Time Between Failure".
• Every time while drinking a bottled beverage you try read the composition of the beverage from the beverage label.
• You refer to your children as your "pilot units".
• You think of the Carnot cycle everytime you turn on your AC unit.
• When you look at objects in the distance and think of mean free path.
• You explain surface tension to your 10 year old when they ask why you are adding oil to boiling spaghetti.
• You make your own shampoo!
• You read this page for the first time on a Saturday night.
• You try to explain entropy to strangers at your table during casual dinner conversation.

You know you are chemical engineer if you really have read this from top to bottom.