From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10bjijg$ekqc$2@dont-email.me>,   
   Cryptoengineer   wrote:   
   >On 9/30/2025 11:22 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:   
   >> In article <10beh6n$35nur$1@dont-email.me>, petertrei@gmail.com   
   >> (Cryptoengineer) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> My college (King's College London) did have a ceremony, but it was   
   >>> held the next fall, when I was already in the States.   
   >>   
   >> Incidentally, my degree ceremony was held just after the end of term.  I   
   >> can't remember when I had my final exam, but the ceremony was 20th July,   
   >> 1973, two days before my 20th birthday.  That was very young for getting   
   >> a degree.   
   >   
   >Cool! I finished at Kings about a week after my 21st birthday.   
   >   
   >In the US, that's still sounds impressive, but in Britain at the   
   >time, you got your undergraduate degree in three years. You put   
   >your major down on your application form, and studied little else.   
   >None of this 'spend a year or two finding your joy' stuff you get   
   >in the US, with its four year degrees.   
   >   
   >Frankly, I'd have preferred the four year system.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   In the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, your first two   
   years are all manner of different engineering courses (plus math,   
   physics and chemistry).  It's after that that you specialize in   
   particular branch, EE, ME, IE, etc.   
      
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