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Ugh, this is really bothering me. I'ma keep the details of the actual thing I was working on vague here just cuz.
Back in January (or early February?) I got kinda bored just learning and not being involved, so I wondered about and pestered Pros and postdocs to see if anyone had something interesting and challenging that I could work on for them. I don't know what I was expecting to happen, but someone ended up giving me a reasonably important piece of equipment (a part of a really cool detector) that needed to be fixed. They were using the backup at the moment, but it wasn't as good.
So they needed this thing fixed, but no one knew how to fix it Nor did anyone really know how it worked. So they kinda just gave it to me and one other (who dropped out almost immediately, saying he wanted to "concentrate on course work"), assigned us a little nook in the corner of one of the labs, and said "make it work".
Well, I got to know my way around the lab really well. I got to know how to use weird and interesting new equipment. I got to know a bunch of cool masters and phd students, and I got to know the lab tech. I had a BLAST. It was a great adventure trying to work out what was going on with this piece of electronics.
One thing I didn't do was fix it. I cannot figure out what is wrong with this thing. I feel like I've checked everything I can think of. It's almost the end of term and soon I am going to have to send an email to the prog and postdoc that gave me the thing and tell them I failed, and that I couldn't fix it.
I really, REALLY don't want to send that email. I feel like I should be able to fix this thing, and I REALLY want to impress this professor.
Anyways, yeah. Whine whine whine. This has me in a bad mood. I know I should be working on my exams but I can't get my mind off this damn thing.
There is a 60% chance that none of that ^ made any sense. In which case, I'm sorry.
Back in January (or early February?) I got kinda bored just learning and not being involved, so I wondered about and pestered Pros and postdocs to see if anyone had something interesting and challenging that I could work on for them. I don't know what I was expecting to happen, but someone ended up giving me a reasonably important piece of equipment (a part of a really cool detector) that needed to be fixed. They were using the backup at the moment, but it wasn't as good.
So they needed this thing fixed, but no one knew how to fix it Nor did anyone really know how it worked. So they kinda just gave it to me and one other (who dropped out almost immediately, saying he wanted to "concentrate on course work"), assigned us a little nook in the corner of one of the labs, and said "make it work".
Well, I got to know my way around the lab really well. I got to know how to use weird and interesting new equipment. I got to know a bunch of cool masters and phd students, and I got to know the lab tech. I had a BLAST. It was a great adventure trying to work out what was going on with this piece of electronics.
One thing I didn't do was fix it. I cannot figure out what is wrong with this thing. I feel like I've checked everything I can think of. It's almost the end of term and soon I am going to have to send an email to the prog and postdoc that gave me the thing and tell them I failed, and that I couldn't fix it.
I really, REALLY don't want to send that email. I feel like I should be able to fix this thing, and I REALLY want to impress this professor.
Anyways, yeah. Whine whine whine. This has me in a bad mood. I know I should be working on my exams but I can't get my mind off this damn thing.
There is a 60% chance that none of that ^ made any sense. In which case, I'm sorry.