Yay! Was I mentioned? Oh yes! Maybe I'll write a personal account too on becoming a chemical engineer in that hell of the department. Char. Now that grit was mentioned in one of the comments, I'm sorry to tell you that the concept is controversial. I was going to write about the topic last year, but my research ended up with articles debunking the very concept that I believed in as to why I survived ChE. But still, it's more of personal experience rather than pure theory.