I love this perspective. I wanted to be Tom Scholz from Boston (though he was an ME, and that was my dad’s music).

My junior project in EE was a guitar fx pedal with a shielded breadboard on top. I won’t be bashful, that was the most popular project in the room.

Then… I got divorced and never finished my EE degree. I already had a degree in CS, and had pursued a second degree because I thought software was too limiting. Now, here I am, all limited.

The reason I never subsequently finished my degree was that I didn’t really want to work on CMOS nor transmission lines or microwave, and graduating with an ECE degree from U of Utah offered those as your career paths.