A groundbreaking study conducted in the Kundur Lab of Questionable Methodology within the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering has revealed a shocking correlation: the closer you are to finishing an assignment, the more likely your sex playlist and your study playlist are exactly the same. Naturally, this varies by discipline. Thanks to the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards, our resident sex freak, Verilog Slut, can directly summarize the results of this research below.

Chemical Engineering: 85% Overlap

Chemical engineers like their beats high-energy, slightly dangerous, and full of potential explosions.

Study playlist: EDM, bass drops timed with titration calculations.

Sex playlist: Slightly faster EDM, maybe with a warning label.

Verdict: If you can survive one, you can survive the other. Overlap is inevitable, making it an optimized process (because chemical engineering is more process engineering than chemistry).

Civil Engineering: 30% Overlap

Civil students tend toward stability. Their playlists are like bridges: functional, predictable, and safe.

Study playlist: Dad rock, arena anthems, classic hits.

Sex playlist: Slightly more rhythmic dad rock.

Verdict: The crossover exists, but it is polite and structurally sound.

Electrical & Computer Engineering: 10% Overlap

ECE playlists are experimental, dissonant, and confusing.

Study playlist: Ambient noise, electronic distortion, anime soundtracks.

Sex playlist: Imaginary, as denoted by j. 

Verdict: Overlap is statistically negligible. 

Industrial Engineering: 50% Overlap

Industrial engineers are pragmatic, efficient, and obsessed with optimization.

Study playlist: Lo-fi productivity beats, playlists with structured BPMs.

Sex playlist: The same BPM-focused playlists (why waste time curating another one?).

Verdict: Half overlap, because efficiency makes me wet.

Materials Engineering: 60% Overlap

Materials engineers are heavy on textures, in music and elsewhere (latex, anyone?).

Study playlist: Classic rock, synthwave, industrial electronic.

Sex playlist: Classic rock, synthwave, industrial electronic.

Verdict: It’s a love letter to consistency. Who needs novelty when you have structure?

Mechanical Engineering: 40% Overlap

Mechanical students are loud, aggressive, and occasionally terrifying.

Study playlist: Metal, hard rock, anything that could conceivably power an engine.

Sex playlist: Same genres, but louder.

Verdict: Overlap exists, but watch out for safety violations.

Mineral Engineering: 25% Overlap

Mineral engineers prefer their music like their mines: deep, occasionally silent, and full of heavy drops.

Study playlist: Ambient electronic, cavernous synths.

Sex playlist: Slightly more upbeat ambient electronic.

Verdict: Overlap exists in principle, but often more subterranean than audible.

Engineering Science: 90% Overlap

EngSci students have a single playlist philosophy: complexity, unpredictability, and moral superiority. Across the board, insufferable.

Study playlist: Prog rock, 9-minute instrumentals, existential jazz.

Sex playlist: Prog rock, 9-minute instrumentals, existential jazz.

Verdict: Complete overlap. Why differentiate when everything must be objectively better than everyone else’s?

Conclusion

From ECE imagination to EngSci existentialism, it’s clear: engineers do not separate “fun” from “function.” We optimize playlists just like everything else.

And if your sex playlist sounds suspiciously like your study playlist? Congratulations. You’re an engineer.