Work: We really value grad student opinions in our new director search. Would you like to serve on the director search committee? It'll be about 60 hours of work during the fall semester.
Me: Cool. Is there funding to cover the students' time?
Work: ....
Work: This is a service position
Is there a phrase for when you're working well beyond your limits, so you stop to take care of yourself, but someone else is volunteering to work well past their limits to try and get that work done, and now you're just feeling bad no matter what?
Ugh. Sometimes work is stressful. We're baking out our rocket to clean the inside and we've got an expensive camera inside. I checked on it and it said 180 degrees, which I was sure was too hot (thinking in Celsius). Freaked out a lot because that's way over the camera's recommended limits but I can't open it and check.
Thinking more on it, I think I'm good. I touched the outside and didn't burn myself. Whew probably not 180 C. 180 F (80 C) much better. #GradStudentDaily
Ugh. I knew I was overworked, but I wasnt aware how much.
Other #SoundingRocket projects generally have a collection of part time professional engineers (electrical, mechanical, thermal, etc) and also have senior and junior grad students, a PI who's there 40% of the time, and a fleet of undergrads. This is normal for a rocket reflight. (10x easier than from scratch)
I have the normal professional engineers, me, a PI who's there 20% of the time, and 2 undergrads.
From scratch.
@bibianaprinoth we're hoping to get unprecedentedly high time resolution spectral images of the solar chromosphere testing wavelengths right around Lyman alpha. We're planning on launching during a #SolarFlare so we can observe the changes happening on a second to second scale. We also want to see solar spicules, which help transfer an unknown about of heat and mass from the photosphere to the corona.
I like to post about my work using the hashtag #GradStudentDaily but don't have a lot yet