I decided to google my name, as I've heard employers do that with applicants. Just on a lark, I wanted to see what comes up. I pity the employer that tries such to gain info about me. Apparently I'm a lawyer, an Oxford professor, a professional football player, I was wounded in combat in Iraq in 2005 and decorated for my heroism. I have a successful music career, but I did 5 for grand theft auto in my 20s.

Dropkick Murphys - Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced comes to mind.

"I designed the Sears Tower, I make two grand an hour, I cook the world's best duck flambe!"

You know, people ask me why I chose Ag Engineering as my major, and the answer is pretty simple: As a child, I always wanted to grow up to be a wizard. Like Gandalf, or Raistlin. A mysterious figure with the arcane secrets to accomplish wonderous things. And that is exactly what engineering is to me.

The first time I really felt this way was a little over a year ago in my first Calculus class. One of our "practical application labs" was finding the optimum diameter for a rotar in a Wankel rotary engine. I was amazed that such could be accomplished with about a half page of higher mathematics. And it occured to me then that for 4-sided, 5-sided, 6-sided, ANY-sided rotary engines, I could *trivially* design the optimum one. Not only can I figure out how to create the best possible form of a non-existant engine, but it is a frankly simple matter with the calculus in hand. That is outright sorcery. There is magic in the world, still. The Calculus is the surest proof of such.