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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I know a response filled with reluctance when I hear it because I've so often given the same time of placating but non-committal answer to students who have tried to get me to give them consideration they have not shown that they deserve.

So when the dean replied in that same tone when my former undergraduate thesis adviser said that I could use the data from the satellite beacon currently in our campus about relative electron content of different segments of the atmosphere as seen from our campus for my graduate project, I didn't pay much heed.

After all, he's leaving as dean and at the same time he's not going to be working in the college of computer studies anymore like before when he was my teacher, which means he won't have but nominal influence in what the current teachers will be approving and disapproving as acceptable proposals.

Although he did say that even though he will be in that other campus, that when the memorandum of agreement pushes through between the National Central University in Taiwan and our campus, that most likely he will still be in the thick of things because it is the district's collaboration after all.

My former thesis adviser did say he hasn't spoken to his own dean about the equipment being moved from their campus to ours, and that our dean just said to tell him for now that it is at our campus for extended "testing" and not yet finally decided yet to be moved, even though that is what the Taiwanese researchers have decided already. This is just in case they have any objections to the move, despite the fact that if left where it was, the beacon would be receiving spotty data at best.

This is just like that research four years ago with the sun photometer where the baseline readings were taken from our campus, by the same team in the other campus with which the Taiwanese first met.

Ah, politics. How much smoother plans would go without everyone having their own agenda, and being too careful not to step in anyone else's perceived disagreeable zone for better compromise.

Session 2115 hopes that everyone would look at the opportunity as a means of furthering research in the campus. Class dismissed.