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Saturday, February 01, 2003 Bad Bad day Next time when my students told me that they could not hand in assignment on time because their computer is down, I¡¯d better believe them, at least some of them. Because it happens to me, while I was working on my deadline for tomorrow. My notebook crashed down mysteriously, error" Registry file failure" I just could not restart it any more. All my paper, data, table is locked in that machine. Lesson: back up is really important. This is not the worst part of the day. We were supposed to be in Toronto right now to celebrate the Chinese New Year with friends, but we could not get the visa this morning, since the consulate just changed their office hour. For New-year-eve dinner, which is big thing for Chinese, we got a lousy one at ¡°Scotch & loin¡±: the steak was terribly scotched, full of charcoal on surface, but the manager did not admit it. When things could not get any worse, Bin and I had a fight, which almost ends up with my fleeing home. Still it is not the worst part. While we were struggling to get my files back from my notebook, I got my edited paper from Alex, my adviser. Pointing out two paragraphs taking from literatures without quoting, he is very unhappy about this "plagiarism¡±. That is quite harsh and almost struck me down. I could hardly have any excuse although it seems to have one. I did the literature review two years ago. It must be that I copied something without putting down the resource; and two years later, I took them as my own words. It is a terrible thing to do, and sounds stupid. But it did happen, and unfortunately, to me. I¡¯m glad he finds this out before I submitting to peer review, what a tragedy would it had been. Well, I guess I have to postpone my journal submission and make sure it is all my words. There are really some days in your life like nightmare, from which you could never wake up. But I believe everything will pass through, and if we could hang on long enough, we survive and wake up in a sunny morning. posted by lmeimei @1:16 AM| permanent link| | |
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