It’s funny how your perspective gets warped when you work at a University and it’s that<\/i> time of year – the big push before the big publication deadline for the big SIGGRAPH conference.<\/p>\n
I came into the lab today already feeling a little punchy from the last few days of working nonstop on our paper submissions – all of which are due tomorrow, January 20. I could see right away that the grad students all had that same slightly dazed look – everyone is trying to get their paper out by 5pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I ran into one of the grad students in the hall, and rather than ask him how his paper was going, which I was afraid might just make him more tense and nervous, I said “Happy Martin Luther King Day!” He smiled a big broad smile, and replied “And what are you<\/i> doing to celebrate Martin Luther King Day today?”<\/p>\n
Which kind of threw me back in the moment. With total honesty, I said “I’m trying to finish my SIGGRAPH paper.” He asked me why trying to finish a SIGGRAPH paper was celebrating Martin Luther King Day.<\/p>\n
And that’s when I suddenly saw the connection. “Because,” I told him, “I have a dream!”<\/p>\n
OK, so it may not be the right<\/i> dream, but it sure helped lighten the mood.<\/p>\n
The funny thing about this is that later in the day I was relating this conversation to another grad student, and he told me that he had told his wife earlier in the day that we really had a shot at getting this paper finished on time, in spite of all the work left to do.<\/p>\n
Whereupon his wife had shouted out in support “Yes we can!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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