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+These should enable the pine to use Iowa Eduroam on boot with the detailed user creds
+in wpa_wupplicant.conf
+
+### Random Tips
+- The py script was used to generate for the first time the wpa config, but 
+that's now included in this repo, so I don't think it will ever need to be run again.
+- `chsh -s /bin/bash john` to set a new users terminal to bash over just sh
+- set/replace `/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf` + and `/etc/network/interfaces`