Things That Make Me Smile

Up until now, I just don't realised how lucky I am due to the location of my office. Department of Mathematics and Statistics which is situated in level nine have rooms arranged in circles. At the center of the circles, we can also find more rooms which placed the conference room, graduate's office, rest room, discussion's room and some lecturer's room. The only disadvantage of the graduate's office situated in the center of the space is that they don't have windows to see outsides view. I'm lucky because the office which I'm sitting now, had a view of the street of Maisonneuve of downtown, Montreal. When it's snow falling, I enjoyed them every single day.

To start with, my office is only separated by three other lecturer's room to my advisor's room. Whenever he is speaking to someone or he went to the rest room, he will walked past my office. So I can sometimes heard his voice very loud and clear. I even recognize his footsteps. hehehe... Then, in front of me is the room for the department technical staff (we called him the computer consultant) and next to his room is the department Mathematics Help Centre (math help centre) staffed by graduate students, which provides tutoring and personal assistance for undergraduate students (particularly for first-year courses), and helps smooth the transition from CEGEP to university.

Next, we are also very near to the administrative area (this includes reception counter and support staff room) which also be very closed to the elevators (I can reach my office less than 10 steps). To add more, the conference room, where seminars usually took place is also near. And most important, the graduate's computer room where unlimited printing services is available is just happened to be next two room from my office. And last but not least, in between the graduate's computer room and my office there is the emergency's stairs (only). I think this is the most important one, if in case of fire alarm.

To view it back, I personally think that I have experienced the best spot so far. And these make me smile...

Today

I spend like one hour (plus couple of hours on previous day) to find a solution for this particular question on convergent series. I've tried like so many steps and trying hard to tackle such problem from different angles. What can I say, it turns me nowhere. At the beginning I just want to ask my friend in the office. She's the only one who is available (it's summer break). We share the same SV. But to think that I must have missed few small steps to figure it out, then I just keep on looking for an answer. Next, I just could not wait any longer. Hey, there's other tons exercises which also need my attention. Cut the crap, just ask!

The minute she had the question, she made another form of the question that is similar to the one that we want to solve. Arrghh, that moment I can see the answer right away. What a very small, small effort.

I really piss off.