[David]

The worse college professor I had was this Russian who was about 5 foot nothing. Later in my studies we were talking to one of the departments’ best professors, who happened to be about 6’6”, about how the Russian guy got hired. He said only one professor pushed for him to be hired: 5’2” professor Huissain who wanted there to be a professor shorter than him.

As bad as the Russian was, he taught me perhaps the most valuable thing I learned in engineering school: that an engineer is not someone who remembers everything they were taught in engineering school but rather someone who knows where to look for the answer.