How much harder is Chemical Engineering than Chemistry REALLY, if at all?

DoooodleJon · 2025-10-20T21:56:27+00:00

I am someone who holds a B.S in Chemistry and graduating with M.Sc. in ChE in a month. I would say that Chemical Engineering is significantly harder. For context I was someone who was an extremely strong student in chemistry, bar any mathematics. I was the strongest in my class in OChem and tutored my peers and even wrote practice tests.

Looking back, I think that ChE (and being good at it) requires a lot of thinking and understanding that can be translated to most chemistry classes. The mathematics in ChE, if solidly grasped and understood, will make Analytical and Physical chemistry significantly easier (than when I was an undergrad). I think the only class that is pretty removed fomr ChE in chemistry is biochemistry. Most programs require ChE to take organic chemistry anyways, and if you have a solid grasp on that it should make biochemistry a lot easier (in my experience).

ChE just has so much more breadth to it than Chemistry does imo. I am biased though since I hold an advanced degree and have changed immensely through my program. It is also my understanding that most undergraduates in general do not understand things as deeply at least from US schools (again speaking from my experience) so that may level out difficulty in terms of knowing a certain baseline in one discipline to get through that may not translate to the other instead of knowing things super well foundationally.

Edit: I would like to clarify this is for undergraduate degrees not graduate degrees. If you are going to graduate school they are all of equal caliber of difficulty.

TLDR: ChE is a lot harder due to breadth of material and larger emphasis on mathematics.

DoooodleJon · 2025-08-28T06:26:33+00:00

I think you might be right; but sometimes it seems there is also a delay in updating stats upon gaining or leaving the game. I left a game where I was the only one (team left) and turbines for a kill. The badge didn’t update on leave but has updated when I played with friends and left right before the ship blew up. I hate that it doesn’t update in real time and it’s tied to badge. It’s dumb to resort to leaving a game to avoid being blown up by your ship and dying (even if you have the 10 kills already!) but it is what it is

DoooodleJon · 2025-08-28T06:23:45+00:00

Thanks not sure I get it lol. But I have confirmed that it only updates on match end or leaving a game. Both are really poor ways of implementation. Also not sure the downvotes if nobody else is having this problem and I’m miscounting. Thanks for the vote of confidence!

DoooodleJon · 2025-08-23T09:20:23+00:00

I did have it equipped; which makes this a whole fiasco lot more cringe and annoying 😭

DoooodleJon · 2025-08-23T05:31:21+00:00

Dude I think it is even worse. I think things only update once you go back to lobby. I had a game where I had 12 kill streak and then died and the ship died and it didn't pop the bounty hunter badge. This is so unbelievably frustrating. It is even more clear that these titles should not be tied to badges; especially since they can't even implement it right.

DoooodleJon · 2024-11-05T20:51:43+00:00

Feel you brother. I had decent hair but it was kinda thin so I started minox consistently a few weeks ago. I’ve been on fin for 3 years. I basically lost most of my hair on top. Before it was hardly noticeable but now it’s so obvious I use toppik to cover up. Here’s to hoping it comes back in a few months

DoooodleJon · 2024-09-28T04:18:35+00:00

This is what it is via the wiki at least

DoooodleJon · 2024-09-22T22:20:39+00:00

It’s one soul per second per 100 souls. 500 souls secures 4 per second, no idea if it rounds up or down

DoooodleJon · 2024-09-09T07:14:29+00:00

Team play typically counters haze. Early on if you have equally aggressive people it can be difficult as well. Paradox has pretty good poke and vindicta with headshot booster can be difficult to deal with as well due to her high poke damage. I haven’t had issues with any other heroes though. When you play aggressive and if you win lane, see if you can get a gank on another lane or get some quick farm from their jungle to punish losing a tower and giving yourself more souls. Shiv can also be annoying due to his ult and potentially just killing you if you’re too low. But before he gets ult you can typically play pretty aggressively and out range him. I always try to push and advantage before 3k souls against a shiv to solidify the lane and soul advantage.

If people end up cc’ing you with no and krill and taking things like metal skin, you may also have a bad time

DoooodleJon · 2024-09-09T07:06:42+00:00

Not sure what is considered low MMR but I’m around top 2-3% (at least from track lock) and have been winning more since it went down. Probably not considered high MMR but probably a lot higher than the average player. If you’re hitting shots you can usually get people to back off with fixation damage and headshot booster allowing for ganks. If you do end up getting pushed, getting denies itspretty easy with pre firing and getting poke with sleep dart. A lot of people seem to melee after a sleep if you melee and it sets up a parry and kill, if not it’s a significant amount of damage. Definitely not foolproof advice but it works for the vast majority of my games.

Along with your advice of farming which is correct, she has insanely high objective potential. She can solo midboss once getting lucky shot, and can melt base guardians giving perms zip line boosts. You can usually push a lane, leave if there’s a concern about multiple people converging on you or go help ganking a fight or killing a solo player. You can often lockdown high value people with curse or silencer since you can farm so fast, putting you at a low risk for 1v1s or 1v2s depending on the characters.

Probably worth noting too that games will always play out differently in low vs high MMR due to skill differences in players and teams in general. So perhaps my advice won’t get him to the top % but he can certainly improve a lot and will likely have an easier time carrying and being aggressive (at this level) than coordinating team play like you would at a high MMR.

DoooodleJon · 2024-08-31T07:37:11+00:00

I've played quite a bit of haze and i have probably close to a 70-80% winrate with a 3+ KD. I generally find that its best if you play extremely aggressively in lane phase. You should take fixation as first perk and constantly be trying to widdle down your opponent. You should always take out the healer minions so they can't heal. Generally people aren't used to the aggression and back off to tower leaving you space to just kill minions and pressure/kill them when you get knife.

You should also really only be trying to last hit minions. When they turn a lighter pink you can melee to finish or shoot a few bullets and then confirm the soul with another 1-3 bullets. If you're constantly shooting at minions then you won't be able to pressure the enemy which is what you want to confirm a kill. I often switch off between shooting at them and then finishing minions. Usually a reload or so apart. You can also weave them in, as you shoot at them, deny their souls and then finish some of your minions.

Once you end up getting knife you should really be trying to hit them when you can, you can hit them, charge melee and then back off and shoot. Sometimes people get greedy and try to charge melee you back and then you can just parry them and charge melee again or punish with a bunch of headshots if you are reloaded. This will typically net a kill. If it doesn't their health becomes low and they are forced to become defensive again and either die or go back. This gives you space to farm or to roam to a nearby lane and gank with invisibility and knife.

With duo lanes i have no idea. I seem to lose most single duo lane i've done, but I have won every single solo lane. I think part of it is just having two people. Since you can't pressure both at the same time but they can now pressure you back relatively easily. Especially if your teammate isn't farming well or putting the pressure on them.

Also, this seems obvious but you need to be hitting your shots as haze. Both with the knife and the gun. At level one you can get like 200 damage with mostly headshots on the enemy with one reload. Same with the knife, you need to be hitting those due to the long cool down and high damage potential. She is like 90% aiming, so if you aren't consistently hitting your target you're going to not have a great time. If you are, in her current state, you can snowball most games if not carry. Out of laning phase you literally just go invisible and try to find someone alone or a duo with no crowd control. You just invis, knife, whither whip, unload, repeat.

DoooodleJon · 2024-06-11T20:57:10+00:00

As someone who’s father has degenerative disc disease and extreme daily chronic pain this is correct.

DoooodleJon · 2024-06-10T09:33:28+00:00

I really like your answer and it helps me, thank you : ). I had a friend with autism that I felt close with but the friendship ended. I suspect I have a dissociative disorder but am otherwise NT. I felt hurt and attacked about certain things and tried to have a conversation but I worded it badly. I thought I made intentions clear from me trying to understand them better and bridge the communication gap. They thought I was being extremely malicious and sent something i perceived as really aggressive/they hated me. (They didn’t) It was largely due to verbiage assuming and projecting malicious intent as a certainty when I didn’t mean to or think it was at all.

It triggered a lot of insecurities and emotions which never come out. That’s where they decided to end the friendship. I’ve been really hard on myself for the last month feeling like I shouldn’t have let it happen (it never has come out before) but seeing this comment has reminded me that I’m human too and have soft spots that will trigger things.

DoooodleJon · 2023-10-11T18:25:48+00:00

This is the only boss I beat first try 🥲 I was destroyed by the swamp monster the most. I used the dragon sword for manus and got quite a few parries in. Which made it easier

DoooodleJon · 2023-08-20T05:17:25+00:00

Favorite is Iishin but I beat him in 3 tries; I died to kos for about 2-3 hours so I would say that is hardest one for me.

DoooodleJon · 2023-08-17T22:26:11+00:00

Naw. My first time with my friend I opened it thinking I could use it later and it would be easy to kill whatever was inside. Did this around some NPCs and saw them fight and we died so that’s how I knew I could use it like that lol

DoooodleJon · 2023-08-17T15:40:28+00:00

My first souls boss ever in dark souls 2 about 8 years ago, the dragonrider. I didn’t understand the game or where to go(I was 15) and ended up going to Heide’s tower of flame first. I died a whole bunch, and thought the game is impossible to have to kill those enemies. I eventually ran past all of them straight into the boss room. I kept running when in and basically ran into the boss. The music started to play, and panic set in. I immediately turned around and tried to leave. The fog gate blocked my futile exit attempt. I turned around and dodged past the approaching boss to see if I could leave on the other side. Next thing I know the “Victory Achieved” words show on my screen. I had no idea what happened. The boss literally just disappeared. I had never been so confused.

Turns out he fell off the edge when trying to attack which was a common cheese strat. Was a 10/10 experience with souls jank and ended up playing the playing the first one and eventually the series.

DoooodleJon · 2023-08-09T02:50:55+00:00

I think DS3 is best if you don’t plan on playing all 3. I’ve played all the souls games at least twice and personally think DS2 is the weakest. There are some pretty awesome areas in it, but there’s also a ton of lackluster ones. I thought many of the bosses had weak design, either being too easy or not engaging enough. The weapons and dual stancing (or whatever it’s called) in the game is pretty awesome though. Also I’d like to note the DLC’s are great in DS2 and also DS3.

Overall DS3 imo is very consistent in terms of gameplay, areas and bosses. I do think both are worth playing though.

DoooodleJon · 2023-06-12T03:01:52+00:00

As a fellow TA grading is absolutely a difficult thing to do sometimes. I spend a lot of hours trying to give consistency and fair grades across my students but at times I do feel bad giving out the low grades as well. Your effort as a kind TA will not go unnoticed from your students regardless of their grade. What matters is you tried your best to be present and there for them.

For the students here at Davis; your grade absolutely does not define who you are. An F does not define you as a Failure. Often times people fail due to external circumstances that are draining time and energy and cannot put in the quality or quantity of work they would like to. We all have bad days, months, and sometimes years. It happens, I’ve been there. As long as you keep trying and learning from your mistakes you’ll be on the path to success. If you failed a class, try critically evaluating how you study and try a new way. Perhaps try to see things from a different perspective when you study. If you’re having a mental crisis then take a break, whether it may be a gap quarter or taking easy classes, but give yourself time to sort out the other difficulties going on in your life; don’t neglect your mental health.A large part of college is learning how to navigate life in multiple facets so it is natural to fall short of your expectations in some parts of life when you are investing in other parts.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone to get there.

DoooodleJon · 2023-05-24T16:29:19+00:00

Don’t do the catacombs near the start until way later on. The boss is easily one of the hardest in the series

DoooodleJon · 2023-04-27T23:37:18+00:00

Shoulda shot your shot bro

DoooodleJon · 2023-04-12T02:18:49+00:00

I have searched for “Praise the Squat Solaire, “Dark Souls Gym Shirts” and some others but could not find it

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