You guessed right, I made the wrong turn at that point of my life. Let me elaborate the uniqueness of this course, it is the only course to offer electrochemical engg in undergrad.
People drink coke from cans using straws, and commute places in bullock carts.
Guess what he ended up in a place as hot as hell in a very arid and flat place for the next 4 years. The skills I acquired in those four years were, to generate data without performing experiments, learn the subject and forget it in exactly 12 hrs. About 9 hrs learning and 3 hrs getting it out of my system, into a paper that is to be evaluated. After a debacle in Utah State University for a year, I ended up in the great city of Louisville.