Larry Laude:  

So here's my story . . . After graduating from Platt High School in Meriden Connecticut, I went to Pittsburgh to attend Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. I had a choice between RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic) in Troy New York but choose CMU because it was a) a bigger city and b) was further from home - but not too far. Went on to get a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and then a Master's in Nuclear Engineering. Thought about getting a PhD but decided for various reasons that it was time to go to work. I ended up going to work for Westinghouse at the Bettis Lab in West Mifflin, just south of Pittsburgh. Now if I had gone to RPI, I probably would have gone to work for GE, perhaps at the Knolls Lab. In one way, RPI might have been a better choice, since it still has a Nuclear Engineering department, unlike CMU. I married my first wife while in gradua...Expand for more