Keeping Life in Balance

So I'm often asked what I'd like to do when I graduate, (as opposed to the question of when I'm going to graduate which is what Michelle asks). Controls Engineering is more or less what I'm specializing in, which, unless your a controls engineer, means nothing to you. Basically I tell machines what to do and how to do it, it's just part of my controlling personality I guess. A classic example is your car's speed control, it has to get the desired speed and stay there whether you're going up a hill or down one or just on flat ground. Here's a video of my lab partner Adam, (I'm filming), of a project we just finished for a class. We wrote a short computer program to balance a pendulum upside-down, like balancing a broom with your hand. I know it sounds pretty geeky but Here goes...