I just got another job. It's kind of my third job now, although one of my jobs will finish in a few weeks. I'm going to be a research assistant for one of the professors at my university. He's a pretty damn clever professor, and it makes me pretty frightened to be working for him. I didn't a project for him over the summer, but that was OK because I didn't have to talk to him, or convince him I understood what I was doing. I kind of did understand, but I couldn't have convinced anyone that I did, least of all him. So this new job is scarier still. I think I mostly have to learn to use this statistical software and explain to him how it works when he doesn't know. Mum just pointed out, that if I try and focus all my energy learning one simple thing that he doesn't understand, then I can trick him into thinking I'm clever. I reckon it's a tops idea, so that's what I'm going to do.
When you learn the thing he doesn’t understand make sure you tell me. Then I can give people a false sense of my inteligence too. How funny.
gem / 11:32am / 16 February 2006
He says there are lots of things he doesn’t understand, so that’s reassuring.
Ryan / 12:02pm / 16 February 2006
Really smart people always say that, actually you say that often too. I suppose it is true that the “the more you know the more you realise you don’t know.”
gem / 8:42pm / 23 February 2006