What exactly disgusts you ? I am curious . <| sep |> I don ' t know what to tell you about MechE and ChemE but to your social life aspect , yes it ' s possible . Will you go out as much as your other friends in liberal arts ? Nope . But you can enjoy a party once in a while . This is especially true if you come in with a decent amount of college credits . I ' m currently a freshman and because I came in with a decent amount of gen eds done I will never have to take more than 14 credits a semester . Actually one con of chemical engineering is the fucking cramming of courses they expect you to take . At my college it ' s 134 credits which is 9 more than most engineering degrees . They recommend you do a 12 CREDIT SUMMER TERM to attempt to graduate in 4 years . Granted this is if you came in with minimal credits . Also ChemE is not chemistry really . MSE is more of the chemistry you ' re thinking of .