"Four out of ten, which is pretty close to average." His scale is somewhat skewed as the worst he's had? Fucking terrible, near lethal. The best? Euphoric. So anywhere middling is sort of...relative to one another. He downs another mouthful, sucking air in through his teeth afterward. "Ngh. Reminds me of college."

Speaking of:

"Engineers can be scientists, scientists can be engineers." It's all theory and application in the varying disciplines anyway. Nothing too difficult in the long run as long as someone's wiling to apply themselves and absorb as much as possible. Or at the very least throw themselves against the wall until it started to make sense. "Suppose it's your lucky day. I am an engineer. What'd you think of, why wasn't it feasible?"