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Re: Engineering Majors
I started college, sometime in the late Cretaceous Period, as an undeclared freshman leaning toward computer science or chemistry. When it came time to declare, I picked Chemical Engineering. [Back when dinasaurs ruled the earth, there were no personal computers; we had these things called mainframes connected to unreliable clusters of time-sharing terminals, jam-prone card readers, and noisy line printers. Chemistry lab was much less frustrating.]
Then I fell in with bad company: gamers. We played chess, duplicate bridge, dungeons and dragons, three-rail billiards, anything to avoid sleep or study. And it turned out that many of my fellow slackers were Electrical Engineering majors. I had gotten bored with working at a chemical plant, and the easiest way to justify changing my co-op assignment was to change my major.
About the same time I realized that electromagnetism is more interesting than chemistry, and has the advantage of requiring far less memorization.
That's how I became a sparky.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
Last edited by Richard Wallace : 19-04-2006 at 11:13.
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