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@timberwraith@mastodon.social @gnoll110@ruby.social Just before the relevant part, I like this bit on college electives. "MM: Yes, it was my first time in the West. I finished secondary school in ‘62. It was the year of independence. The US government gave an independence gift to the Ugandan government, which included 23 fellowships to universities. BS: Do you know how many applied? MM: 800, something like that. BS: Wow, you were really a good student! MM: I came here to be an electrical engineer. BS: Is that right? MM: Yes, I was a science student. In the British system, in the eighth grade, they separate you into different streams. If your marks are high, you go to the science stream. If they are high enough, you go to physics and chemistry, rather than biology. That’s where I was. I came to do Electrical Engineering, and this being America, I had to do electives. I had to do all kinds of things but science. I ended up doing all kinds of courses – music, art, Roman catacombs, philosophy, history…so I changed."