Taylor Swift Parody: You Should Date a CHBE

A parody I wrote on Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" for our Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Banquet. Performed on 4/28/2010. PS: T-swift rules!!

Performers: Kerry Wang, Natalia Salies, Megan Weeks, Victoria Solorzano, Sijuola Odumabo, Ammorette Kwan, and Jeff Van Wageningen

Lyrics:
You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset
She doesn't get what the chemistry prof just said
Cuz she doesn't get kinetics like I do

I'm in the room, its a typical Tuesday night
I'm doing the kind of problem sets that I dont like
And she'll never get mass transfer like I do

But she reads Hemingway, I do research
She's in the school play, and I compete in Akers
Dreaming bout the day when you have analyzed
That what you're lookin for is a girl who can design

If you could see that I can size your reactors
Heat exchangers, pumps
I think you need a C-
S-T-R, baby
You should date a CHBE

Walk through the quad with you and your design team
I cant help thinking this is how it ought to be
Laughing in SDL thinkin to myself
Hey isnt this easy?

And you've got a mind that can separate a stream
A mixture of both xylene and benzene
You say you're fine, I know you better than that
Hey, how'd you solve the PDE like that?

She writes papers, I write programs
She uses English, and I code in FORTRAN
Dreaming bout the day when you have optimized
That what you're lookin for is a girl who can design

If you could see that I can size your reactors
Heat exchangers, pumps
I think you need a C-
S-T-R, baby

Removing heat from banks arranged in cross-flow
Is my Reynolds number too low?
Baby, you should date a CHBE
You should date a CHBE

Oh I remember you coming to my dorm in the middle of the night
I'm the one who makes you try when you think you can't derive
The form for Redlich-Kwong or to find fugacity
I think I know where you belong: in Abercrombie.

Can't you see that I'm the one who understand you?
Been here all along so why can't you see?
You should date a CHBE

Standing by, you're working on Transport
All this time how COULD you not know?
Baby, you should date a CHBE
You should date a CHBE
You should date a CHBE

Have you ever thought just maybe
You should date a CHBE
You should date a CHBE

Glossary:
CSTR - Continuously Sitrred Tank Reactor
SDL - Senior Design Lab
Aker's - William W. Akers senior design competition
PDE - Partial differential equation

Category:

Music

Tags:

• taylor
• swift
• parody
• you
• belong
• with
• me
• should
• date
• chbe
• rice
• university
• chemical
• biomolecular
• engineering

[SpaceLady79]

LOL This is really cute and funny.

[YamiSakanaShadowFish]

Haha very good :) I think I'll suggest this to a certain friend of mine to watch (who may or may not be studying chemisty/engineering :))

ps. Whoot! Science! :D

[notadumblond9]

haha that is so cute :)

[n1223f]

AWESOME!!!! :D

[topaboss]

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