Vacuum
Higgs… Noether… Symmetries… SU(3)… Flavour… Color… Crap… Neutrinos… Neutralinos… Standard Model And Beyond…
Why Pisa and Roma universities have a quality of teaching surely NOT better than Padova University, but have plenty of money to send their undergraduates some months in America during the thesis?
Why Pisa and Roma universities consider the Summer Student as an exam with a value in “credits”, so that students can skip an useless exam, whilst in Padova, here, Maurizio Morando (president of the Graduation Course Council, basically a bureaucrater) said smiling: “Oh, we did not yet decide how to consider Summer Student activities, because we should find a way to assign them a scoring system, a test system and so on… Yes, some years have passed and students keep complaining for this situation… But even for this year, forget it. Summer Student at Padova does not have value. Just put it in your CV”… Crappy politicians in the Council… They will never decide… Too lazy to build a decent system to evaluate the credits for activities…
Crappy Department… The only clean objects are those used by students and researchers… The company which is in charge of cleaning the department is composed by a bunch of bitches that do nothing except sitting in front of main bathroom speaking about their husbands/cloths/sons/friends/whatthefuck…
CMS… My next thesis adventure, it seems…
The last few exams… Then, the final degree, and then the exam for the PhD…
Life…
A fight for love…
A complicated life… Surely I am not the same as in July, before leaving for Fermilab, Batavia (IL)…
I saw the world.
I grew.
I understood how stupid people can be
I understood that bad people deserve icy and hard answers
I understood I am not that bad. Oh well, I am kinda hard to break.
I understood orange juice is a wonderful way to start the day
I understood why theory do not forecast the mass of the Higgs boson
I want to be in the team who will discover the Higgs boson (or its non-existence). If CDF will discover it, while I will switch to CMS starting from my master thesis, I will insult God very very much…
I want to leave my parent’s home…
I want to win my battle for love
I want working opensource drivers for my ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 (today I read that it seems ATI will release soon some specifications of its graphics chips as opensource…)
I want to have time to compile the last kernel version to try it (I use now the 2.6.17.3.). Uh, obviously I use only Vanilla kernels… I prefer them
I want a not-bugged ACPI for all laptops of the world. I had to recompile the DSDT for my laptop… I have still to send it to ACPI at Sourceforge my debugged DSDT…
Oh, well.
Time to sleep?
November 14th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Pietro,
I enjoyed the post, and since its tone is rather harsh, I will not be soft in some comments below… Just to sing to the tune.
1) Maurizio is not a bureaucrater… Thank goodness your site is not so well known - if he visits it he’ll be upset. We paid you a vacation in the States and you want credits for that ?? Get real! If you are in Padova doing Physics you should thank god you’re in a serious place where you get serious teaching.
2) Janitors are not bitches, they are paid like slaves and they have the right to not do their job too carefully. We should apologize for the way some of us leaves the bathrooms at times.
3) Your goal is not to get credit for a discovery you do not deserve, but to get a deserved title and learn something in the meantime.
Cheers,
T.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:30 am
1) Oh well, I did not mean to offend Morando, but it is a fact that all students that encountered him in his role of president of the CCS found him to be far too much compliant with a bureaucratic way of doing things. In fact, I did not complain strictly for the lack of credits: I complained for other universities give credits for it upon a test on the thing. I agree that they are somewhat less serious than Padova, but still recognizing them as credits is not a gift, if the recognization is done verifying the activity done. Moreover, the main compain was that the answer was not “We decided not to recognize credits”/”We decided to recognize credits”, but it was “Yes, it is three or four years since we started thinking about it… Perhaps one day we will decide…”. Don’t say that the decision is very difficult… A meeting: an hour to decide whether to recognize credits for activities: if affirmative, a few hours to schedule the procedures for obtaining credits. And that’s it. Not too difficult. But it seems that the decisions here follow the same rule as in Parliament or in Tribunals: “let’s decide another time”…
2) Ok, “bitches” was a bit too harsh… Of course they have the right not to do their job carefully, but if so, I have the right to complain for their doing nothing! Beside this, I agree that many people in the department are a bunch of dirty pigs (not only students, should I mention the shit found on the floor of a bathroom usually used not by students?), but still they should do their job. My job does not involve organic things, but the idea is the same: during the thesis, last year, I discovered that a dataset was badly documented (variables contained data different from what was declared in the documentation), still I did not cleared the matter with a “The writer of the documentation was unrespectful, so I will not fix things”, but with a “The writer was unrespectful, but my job is to finish the thesis, so let’s guess what the hell is in those variables”. This was an example: these are different ways of seeing the word “job”
3) I do not want to “get credit” for a discovery. I want to be among those who see it for the first time because I find exciting to be one of the first men to see something, and this would enlarge surely my knowledge in the meantime…