<p>So to continue: how did I find it at Cornell? I thought it was just fine. The type of discovery you describe occurred to me a number of times. In various fields of study: sciences, social sciences, French literature, others, even courses in the Agriculture college and the engineering college. Some of these I took to “fill the buckets” of distribution requirements, some I took because they simply had material I wanted to learn.</p>
<p>I didn’t have any burning desire to closely mimic a “great works of western civilization” educational program of studies, so I didn’t try to do that. But I could have tried, if I wanted to.</p>