Well, I didn't attend Stanford , MIT or CMU nor do I know anybody who did. I also live somewhere that is about is far away from Silicon Valley economically (an

Well, I didn't attend Stanford , MIT or CMU nor do I know anybody who did. I also live somewhere that is about is far away from Silicon Valley economically (and geographically) as you can be in the developed world at least. There are plenty of useful things you can study that aren't engineering.