Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20170428042526/@comment-27306930-20170429032017

Pedroh1999 wrote: On a slight derailing, Elliott, do you use the Engineer's Ring? You're an engineer, after all. No, I hadn't heard of the Engineer's Ring. Please tell me more Pedroh.

So here's the thing, I actually went to college for electrical engineering. But in my junior year the first IBM-PC was released. There had been Apple II's around for a couple years, but they weren't being used for anything serious, just some games and educational software. But the PC was a real business computer, with professional apps, that could do serious computing. I saved up $2,200 and bought one in 1984. Been hooked ever since. As a result, I've never actually had a job that required any electrical engineering skills. Although it was helpful back in the days when you had to build your own computers. Those were the days (sigh).

But the disciplines learned from an education in STEM have served me well. It teaches you to think like an engineer, whether it's electrical, mechanical, digital, or structural.