The cliques point is a good one. Certainly there was stratification, and I'd be misrepresenting myself if I didn't identify as comfortable middle class (with al

The cliques point is a good one. Certainly there was stratification, and I'd be misrepresenting myself if I didn't identify as comfortable middle class (with all of the associated guilt for priviledge/etc). I was aware that I knew very few work/study students from lower income families and was aware that there are some unseen forces causing some degree of self-sorting to occur. I was an engineer. It's not obvious to me why in undergrad anyone would have viewed me as an important connection, although it's impossible to have the perspective to reflect on that without some bias.