red hat 9...fedora...open-source...blah blah
The events of today just strengthened my motivation to independent research or teach at the college level and never have to work with people...especially vulnerable little people like high schoolers. Today was the big boat competition between the schools that we work with for my NSF grant. My school had the most amazing boat...when I have pics I'll post them for you to see...everyone's mouth dropped. There were alot of factors that went into judging including presentation, paper, equations, this and that and everyone thought they would win. I mean, I had to make them real hopeful but maybe I got their hopes up too high cuz when I saw their faces when they didn't even take first or second out of 4 schools competing...they might have even placed last...I felt like shit. I mean, I'm probably gonna do something for them but I'm not sure what and if you have any ideas let me know...it's 4 or 5 kids and they are all about 14 or 15. All my life I was the biggest perfectionist...I don't know how my teachers or my mom dealt with me. I feel bad for them all right now. I'll probably never be a mom.