It was as hectic as things can get. I have Fridays off and hence I have 3 day weekends. From Thursday night to Monday morning, the time just flew by.
I have been sleeping at 5am or 6am on all the nights and have been getting up without getting barely any sleep. Eating a meal once a day and living on coke and snacks all the time.
My advisor is working on a paper and I am providing some content for it and have had to work with loads of new apps and new stuff that I have had no idea about. I have been experimenting for about 10 days now with that stuff and have come up with nothing worth putting in a paper.
Other than that I have to work on the assignment for the Parallel Processing course. This is something that is again new to me and I have googled but not found any good tutorial on MPICH. The worst part is that the cluster that I am working on doesn’t run a debugger (I have looked and found nothing). The multiple processes keep dying for no apparent reason and I have spend hours trying to figure it out.
Then there is the tension of preparing for job interview… well the interview will come after I app.. which is another thing I haven’t started yet.
Bottom line… I worked my ass of and at the end of it, I feel like nothing significant was really achieved. Pisses me off completely…. x-(
It’s ok pal, we all go through stressful periods where we feel like nothing is being accomplished. As time passes by, you will realize that SOMETHING was achieved.
In the mean time, start yelling out “SERENITY NOW!” whenever you are stressed out…that’s what I do.
Frankie