On May 5, 2018, at 12:25 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > Interesting. So many people get into things like radio and photography > professionally as an extension of a personal interest that first has them > doing it as a hobby. > > In college, I was talking to someone in my basic circuits class about the > lecture on resistor bridges. I commented that they looked like full wave > rectifiers, but with resistors rather than diodes, and I was blown away that > someone could be in their second year of Electrical Engineering without > already knowing basic electronics from personal interest.
Wot U Sed. Especially when I returned to school after mustering out of the service, almost all the classes I enrolled in were to experience in a fuller-than-previously deep level the things I already enjoyed (there weren't many experiences falling outside that boundary.) Along the way there were the "Ooh, shiny!" diversions from what never really was a definite path through Academia!, and me gob was likewise ensmacked to encounter others in those classes like those bright bulbs you mentioned above. I'm spatiotemporally "here" now, gainfully-retired, and still misusing the lo-cal institutions of instructions to get that same depth, and I *still* encounter too many otherwise bright folks who wear the blinders. Life's too short, Kids! -- "I think we are pole vaulting over mouse manure here." Stolen from a private mailing list -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
