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Old 06-04-2009, 02:54 PM
Jerry Avins
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Default Re: It's Spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to

[email protected] wrote:
> On Jun 3, 8:57 pm, cincy...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>>> Getting the heck out of engineering school while he's still young!
>>> Well, I can certainly relate to that sentiment. How are senior

>> At my school, we were presented with a list of available projects at
>> the beginning of the year and were asked to pick the three that we

>
> Interesting. I'm currently a junior at a ferociously expensive, third-
> rate private college in NY (paying for a misspent youth by having to
> finish my EE degree at the ripe old age of 35). I'm wondering how they
> will assign projects here. I have a fairly good communications channel
> to the dean of engineering and I might use this to try to sidestep any
> canned projects to do my own - I have lots of R&D projects on the boil
> at any given time, and I'd rather not try and slot in a toy school
> project as well.


It seems that you're ahead of me in the delay department. I graduated at
age 30. There was a kid on the way when I went full time, and another
just born when I graduated 3 years later. (It was all worth it.)

Jerry
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