I very much enjoyed reading my classmate Sonia Sotomayor’s account of her Princeton experience in her book, My Beloved World, and found much that I could relate to as another daughter of immigrants from modest circumstances. I did, however, have to chuckle at her immodest claim of having been the first to discover how to use a computer to word-process her senior thesis. By the spring of 1976 a goodly number of seniors, myself included, were making use of the computers at the EQuad to produce our theses. It required no computer knowledge, which I certainly did not have; in fact, the only skills needed were the ability to type on the keyboard of a computer monitor and to handle a box of punch cards.
