Probably an undergrad in EE with emphasis on plasma and lasers. I did ok in controls however the lab class kicked my @ss. More than half the class got caught for cheating. Probably close to 80%. They copied from the frat house files, didn't change the variables and had the exact same wrong answers. I earned a solid F but got a C while others got suspended.
I have a large minor in EE. I focused on digital while lasers/plasma interested me more. I was told back in the day lasers would always be bigger than a house. Now we can shoot down missiles with something on the back of a jeep. I would have loved to have worked on that.
I didn't EARN a single grade in most of my classes. By design most people failed their tests. Then we were given our grade based on the bell curve. Compared to the others, I was a C student. I rarely could land a class were I was in the top 20% of grades. I got tired of running into brick walls and changed to Computer Science my senior year.
I am not too bitter as my motivation for pursuing EE was to work for NASA and take a trip to Mars. Well I am getting long in the tooth and we aren't anywhere near Mars. If we were then I would probably be very bitter on my deathbed.
BTW, God used "strings" as in string theory and light to create everything in the universe. So that is some very cool stuff indeed. The Bible says light came before the stars. Well science finally caught up and confirmed that there was a "glow" aka light long before the stars formed.