Upon looking through my mail from the past week, I discovered a letter from the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency. I ripped through the envelope and read the contents. “Congratulations!!” the enclosed letter began (yes, it had two exclamation points). “You have successfully passed the ENGINEERING INTERN examination.”

Will I ever go on to get my PE? (Professional Engineer for you non-engineers in the audience) Maybe, maybe not. I might do it on a lark many years down the road, but there is no hurry.

That reminds me of something else I realized during the past week: I’m actually using things I learned at school in my job! Some of the knowledge is even stuff that I thought I would never touch again — specifically, electromagnetics. Wow!