Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Fraught feeling

Feeling fraught now: dealing with technology breakdowns at work (how long can it take them to fix a power outage from Sunday night?????), which has left me with one fewer email account for now (but the missing one is my official one), and more importantly has left my students unable to use essential software (no access to the license manager).

And at least one of my students has been MIA for a few days (turns out he's ill, so that is a bit of a relief).

And at least one of my REU students is fraught too --- feeling like a fish out of water, uncertain how important a contribution they can make, etc. So I have to make that right.

But damn it, research is hard! It's supposed to be frustrating!


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