Is anticipation misty? Can you see forever? Does something wonderful wait - . . . just a little further?
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Greetings,
Enter the year two thousand, and truly I've not a lot to say about
it. After fours years of saying I want a job in a small company, I'm now
thinking about long term employment at Monash. Doing undergrad, I kept
hearing about the things my department was doing in robotics, and I
decided I wasn't interested.
So perhaps you won't be surprised that I'm a year and a half into a masters project using ultrasound for robot navigation, and doing tutoring work this semester.
"Yet in my youth I was second best in my school at cross-country running. Dare I say I even enjoyed it, not the rigmarole of carrying a sports bag, hanging into togs in front of strangers or wearing abysmal vests, but the actual running. Years later, I was told that during a long run your brain actually produces a natural heroin, thus giving you a high as you run. If only my teacher had told me this then I could have saved myself a lot of sweating and just gone out and scored some smack. Mind you, I did have my suspicions, as the school's best runner was a junkie going on cold turkey. I always thought it odd that he laughed uncontrollably when the starting gun was fired."
-- Sean Hughes from "the grey area"
helix@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au