Yeah, engineering and non-engineering interests and abilities just don’t very often come as part of the same package.
That's very true. I think that's part of why he got into Harvard and why Maryland gave him their top scholarship - both schools noted his dual interests in personal communications with him.
I think that's also why Hopkins has been a little disappointing - the classics people loved him, and wanted him to go all-classics, the engineering folks liked him, too, but were a little nonplussed by the classics stuff.
The funny thing is, I can see how each interest is really just part of the continuum of the same person, the single personality.
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