I had been
returning to my works for a week. Today is the date of the first seminar. I was
about 5 minutes late, but it took a while to catch up the topic. The slides
projected on the screen were yellow, and the slides were not careful made,
especially the tables with some words in strange shapes. Later we were informed
this was a job market talk. Because this topic is not my field, I didn’t bother
to any comment unless I was in the recruiting committee.
After the
seminar, just like it used to be, with the guest we went to the on-campus hotel
for a dinner. Although there were so many deluxe dishes, the tastes were never
amazing. Each dish was either salty or spicy. I found most of my energy had run
out while eating and listening to what they were talking. The dinner lasted two
hours; however, I felt it was like lasting three hours or longer.
It was
8:30 pm when I came back to the office on old campus. I continued to find a way
to extract a variable from a data file. I had spent a few hours today trying
Stata and R. No solution found. Finally I came back to MatLab, the one I
haven’t used for one year. Because of wasting so much time on the awful
internet, it was 10:00 pm when I figured out the way and installed software
necessary for running MatLab. Due to the lack of both intellectual and physical
proficiency, this was the first time I thought I am getting old.
This was
just the first week. It can be expected that there are more difficulties on the
way. What else can I do other than praying?
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