So, I majored in generators and tubes. All those motors. All those wires. All that spilled oil. And, as the only girl in class, I was handed a clipboard.
Real men play with motor windings.
There was an elective class in something called transistor theory. It looked promising. I liked tracing the little holes and electrons all around the circuit. Besides, I had mastered the clipboard. There was another class a few of us sat in on.