"Licensed and Certified"

A friend's thoughts on finishing drone pilot training in Kyiv

Good Evening.

“Licensed and certified,” Cat texted me this morning, along with this picture. “And I get a cool hat.”

Catarina Buchatskiy will soon return, with her cool hat, to her normal life as a student at Stanford. But first—unlike, I am confident, any of her classmates—she went to do drone pilot training in Kyiv.

I met Cat a year and half ago, short…