Who was I? Who am I becoming

For the past 82 years I have been a perpetual learner. As a child I would become so engrossed in a book that my mother, instead of wasting her time calling me for a meal, would place her hand between the book and my eyes. While in elementary school my sister married an engineer so I started reading physics books to provide a background for becoming an engineer. I earned a B.A. In physics with a math minor before earning a B.S.E.E. While doing postgraduate engineering studies I earned a living as a research assistant.