I graduated with a CSE degree 41 years ago. My tremendous good fortune was obtaining student employment at the University computing center during my second yea

I graduated with a CSE degree 41 years ago. My tremendous good fortune was obtaining student employment at the University computing center during my second year. While my fellow students queued for keypunch machines in the CS labs, I had my own terminal in the office, documentation for everything, and maybe best of all, was treated as a full colleague by the regular staff. They gave us real work to do. The university's budgets were severely reduced during the mid to late 70's, and the student labs were pathetically underequipped and overcrowded. All of the students working at the computing center realized how lucky we were, and received multiple good offers despite graduating in the middle of a recession.