Thanks for sharing your experience.

Did you wait to come out on campus and join the LGBT engineering student organization until you came out to more of your friends and family?

How did you feel once you were more out?

Did you have any boyfriends before you came out? If so, did not being out affect those relationships?

Were their any conflicts with close friends or family about your sexual orientation?

With respect to your thoughts on your fellow students, some of whom just were not out, I think each of us decides over time how we want to incorporate our sexual orientation into our identity. I think some people make the mistake of minimizing the impact that their sexual orientation has on their identity, and those people may come out late or may never be very out. My experience is that sexual orientation is an important aspect of identity. Most adults want to form romantic relationships at some point in their adult lives and our sexual orientation affects our choices about our relationships.