Hi Tjaart,

I wish I could say that would be likely to happen here. I dunno,maybe I'm
not seeing the whole picture here,but I have yet to meet an EE student at
Cornell who is also a real electronics hobbyist. It seems to me that they
would only express mild interest in such materials at a trade show.

What is perhaps worse than that is the response when I told my EE advisor
that I was an electronics hobbyist and an amateur radio operator. IIRC, it
was something like "Ah, I see". In my opinion,they should welcome such
strong interest in the field with open arms.

Sean

At 06:01 AM 8/25/99 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Years ago I took a minivan full of students to an electronics show.
>They were grabbing all the booklets, databooks and flyers they could.
>I heard one vendor telling his mate in full earshot of the particular
>student : "These students are like fucking vultures". They now have
>more buying power and bigger budgets than he does.
>
>--
>Friendly Regards
>
>Tjaart van der Walt
>
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