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.