Continuing education and the IEEE I&M Magazine [From the Editor's Bench]

The activities of a new school term are challenging parents and children in much of the world. Most of us are increasingly aware the holiday season is getting closer. The fiscal years of governments and organizations impose their own arbitrary, although significant deadl ines on our busy lives. Some of the things we promised to do this year are still waiting for attention. Most of us have learned to cope; we are experienced in the arts of prioritizing and schedule juggling, and we get it done somehow. Schedules, deadlines, calendars, reports, meetings, estimates, proposals, and conflicts are parts of everyday life. They are so commonplace, they are unremarkable. Does a fish marvel that water is wet?