- fundamental education was pretty good. I went to a second tear engineering university, we had a very rigorous course of math (five semesters), physics (four semesters), theoretical basis of electonics (four semesters) - I am a pretty successfull engineer in the States by any reasonable standard, and my education is completely adequate. Also, an average high school graduate in "совок" would run circles around an average high school student here in math, and chemistry, geography, etc.
- when everybody around you lives this miserable life you would not even know that you are deprived of something. I went to Saint Petersburg in the summer of 2001, it was the lowest point I think - the city in terrible disarray, the streets full of falling apart cars, angry impoverished people in public transportation. It just hurt to be there the first few days. By the end of my vacation (less then three weeks) I all of a sudden realized that I was not noticing any problems any more - I got used to it, it just became a new norm.
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- fundamental education was pretty good. I went to a second tear engineering university, we had a very rigorous course of math (five semesters), physics (four semesters), theoretical basis of electonics (four semesters) - I am a pretty successfull engineer in the States by any reasonable standard, and my education is completely adequate. Also, an average high school graduate in "совок" would run circles around an average high school student here in math, and chemistry, geography, etc.
- when everybody around you lives this miserable life you would not even know that you are deprived of something. I went to Saint Petersburg in the summer of 2001, it was the lowest point I think - the city in terrible disarray, the streets full of falling apart cars, angry impoverished people in public transportation. It just hurt to be there the first few days. By the end of my vacation (less then three weeks) I all of a sudden realized that I was not noticing any problems any more - I got used to it, it just became a new norm.