struggles.

today over all was an ok day. i spent most of the morning reading this one paper that my advisor asked me to read for the past two weeks. it's a very difficult to read mainly because of some of the concepts related to graph theory and rigidity theory applied to sensor networks. as a result, i started reading these other reference papers to help me understand some of the ideas. but those were not very helpful either.

group meeting was scary. not because advisor asked me to give updates, but because he didn't say much after i told him about what i have been doing. he told me i might be working with anthony so on some problems that he has been doing. but since he didn't say much today, i think that might not be working out so much. and what's worse is that i don't know how much confidence he has in me about my ability to conduct research.

later in the afternoon, i got an email from him telling me to do the group website. that pretty much confirmed that i probably won't be working on any meaningful research in the near future. and that's pretty disappointing.

i walked by his office later and heard him talking to dr. liu tie about their respective students. i kinda wanted to stick around and see what they think of me, but decided to just not think about it and do the best i can in the task that is assigned to me.

after class, some of my friends went to carino's for dinner. they had some kindava special, so the place was packed. it took us over an hour before we got seats. but over all the food was very satisfying. it was also fun playing uno for a couple of hours after dinner. unfortunately, it's back to work tomorrow.

rating 02/01/08: 7