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		<title>By: DanS</title>
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		<description>Jim was one of my electronics deans at DeVry.  He had an interesting philosophy, which I find to hold true to this day -- and it’s always “recently.”

&quot;You may learn many things while you&#039;re here, but remember that it&#039;s all really just a form of magic, smoke and mirrors, and eventually becomes completely unintelligible.&quot;

I suppose this is because, when you lose sight of the tech, some kid sneaks up behind you and says,  &quot;Look what I just did,&quot; and that tech-sparkle lights you up again.

As a side note:
Had another instructor who insisted that electronics were filled with smoke, be they resistors, transistors, capacitors, or just a length of wire.  If you put too much smoke it, the device reaches what she called &quot;maximum smoke,&quot; and -- poof! -- all that smoke gets out.

I had fun at DeVry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim was one of my electronics deans at DeVry.  He had an interesting philosophy, which I find to hold true to this day &#8212; and it’s always “recently.”</p>
<p>&#8220;You may learn many things while you&#8217;re here, but remember that it&#8217;s all really just a form of magic, smoke and mirrors, and eventually becomes completely unintelligible.&#8221;</p>
<p>I suppose this is because, when you lose sight of the tech, some kid sneaks up behind you and says,  &#8220;Look what I just did,&#8221; and that tech-sparkle lights you up again.</p>
<p>As a side note:<br />
Had another instructor who insisted that electronics were filled with smoke, be they resistors, transistors, capacitors, or just a length of wire.  If you put too much smoke it, the device reaches what she called &#8220;maximum smoke,&#8221; and &#8212; poof! &#8212; all that smoke gets out.</p>
<p>I had fun at DeVry.</p>
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