[mairdie]

I look back fondly, too. Majored physics and history of art, near eastern ancient. Terrible memories of Schroedinger’s Equations. Great memories of French Impressionism projected on huge screens in immense auditoriums. Father was an ROTC Cavalry instructor at the same college, where he dated mother. Great photo of a line of men on horseback with their revolvers in the air. Articles about ROTC students should not be wearing their spurs at the college dances.

[Night Hides Not]

I graduated from Gonzaga 49 years ago. Among the greatest 4 year periods of my life. ROTC paid the freight for me, enabling an incredible educational and life experience. I didn't think much of the core curriculum at the time, but it rounded me out academically.

My accounting degree was unique: I had the same professor for over 30 semester hours, and he never used numbers, taught the accounting theory behind each problem. No multiple guess, strictly essay questions for the midterms and finals. I'm still applying his lessons to this day.

[GingisK]

Years after I graduated, the physics department asked me if I wanted to take possession of the IBM 1130. Alas, I had no place to keep it. They used it for number crunching lab data as well as taking lab data directly from the instruments. I designed and built the electronics that connected the instrumentation to the computer.

Yeah, I had a good time. Every last one of those wonderful professors are dead now. They all considered themselves to be my surrogate fathers.

Sounds like you had a great setup as well. I'm with your on those Schroedinger’s Equations. Maxwell's Equations were also unfriendly.