Tim's thinking.

I am not really sure if I ever decided I wanted to be an engineer, life just kind of pointed me at this path. My father used to play chess with my grandad, and I always wanted to play, but he told me that first I had to just sit and watch, and learn how to play that way first. So for hour upon hour I would sit in silence watching my dad and grandad in their mental duel, moving pieces with care and thought, and somewhere in those hours I developed a real skill for being able to stare at something and quickly figure it out. Fast forward and here I am at Illinois staring at people walking and graphs of CO2 tank pressure outputs and figuring out what is going on.