(updated: now with links to projects) A friend asked me, in reference to my post about the call for proposals for REU positions from CRA, “What kind of projects did you have them work on?” Two years ago, I proposed two projects and used one. (I was to have two students, but sadly the shuttle [...]
January 19, 2012
It won't change
It was in the week before Christmas. An older friend of mine dropped by, as he does so every few weeks. He is a university employee, not faculty, with whom I struck up a passing friendship shortly after starting at Oregon State. We chatted for a while. He asked me how a recent work trip [...]