<p>VERY cool! Those are really GREAT moments for young wannabees, just as Su’s “coffee” moment illuminates. Seems he was paying it forward with your student. </p>
<p>The very slim research exposes that ironically, there are many more Christians and conservatives in colleges like Harvey Mudd that are rooted in engineering and the hard sciences vs. the soft sciences like sociology, psychology, English, political science, history, communications, etc. Some would think it would be just the opposite. But many find that scientific analyses and observation lead toward intelligent design and thus an Intelligent Designer. A great many of these end up staying in the “closet” for fear of becoming targets among their egg-headed, self-impressed colleagues. Su also exposes the beauty in humility.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the hard types don’t sit around navel-gazing and sand-box engineering. They are more rooted in linking learning to reality. Bridge-builders cannot afford much “experimentation” as there are real and notable consequences to their muddling. Not that there is not among the mush-minded social engineers who are messing with young people’s minds and souls.</p>
<p>Now this might make for a most intriguing Ph.D. thesis for one sufficiently courageous to risk his academic future in search of the Truth. Not many committees would tolerate such “tolerance.” Nor approve the topic, let alone allow the candidate passage into their exclusive, mostly secular fraternity. And we wonder why most campuses are populated by 95% liberal, left-winged “progressive” professors.</p>