Well truth in advertising I’m from WV. In order to be allowed back in the will and not have to eat at the ‘little kids table’ at family gatherings I had to “fix” my VaTech mistake. So I went to grad school at WVU (worked part-time at first!). I also switched to EE\Math. Got an MS in that eventually, and then went to work for a while. My family went to WVU since the beginning of time. As I stated above I was a pariah for not doing my undergrad there. (Seriously I was! My uncles were pissed at me!) Another thing driving going to grad school, it was the late 1970s, oil prices were crashing as were geoscience jobs. I already survived one layoff, I wasn’t going to chance another particularly while I was still a free man. Later I returned there for a PhD.
You know the old saying: Life is what happens when you’ve made other plans. For much of my life, if I ever tried to predict a year in advance where I’d be and what would be happening, I’d be wrong.