hey everyone,
i just wanted to second aaron's last note regarding shifts. i am
willing to submit myself to such a schedule and would welcome the
structure. i'm sure his proposal will be modified, but for the most
part it seems pretty good. one thing that maybe needs to be taken into
account is that some of us are still heavily involved in developing
hardware that is not installed (ok, maybe this is just ben and me (?)).
so that still has to have some level of priority. i think that aaron's
suggestion would work well (where ben and i take a total of 7 shifts per
week together) as we would have enough time to work on the target.
i also like the idea of having a student meeting of some kind to
coordinate this stuff.
thanks,
jason
Aaron Joseph Maschinot wrote:
>
> I think that we need something a little more organized to help in the
> shift determining process during commissionning. I also think that it is
> in all the grad students' best interest to have that "little more
> organization" come from the grad student group, that is to say, one or
> more of the grad students should work out such a schedule for the shifts
> (as opposed to a professor doing it). Since we do the shifts, we know
> what the problems and practicalities of shift-taking are.
>
> As such, I shall propose one possible shift-taking plan. It is not
> necessarily the best; however, it is fair. Others should propose
> different plans, if this one is not satisfactory. (Please do this, as if
> you don't, this schedule MIGHT get chosen and you MIGHT not like it and,
> since I proposed it, you MIGHT harbor grudges against me, and I do not
> want that...)
>
> First off, there are NOT as many grad students working fully on BLAST as
> John's e-mail last week stated. The following students are all getting a
> thesis off of the first set of runs next year:
>
> Ziskin
> Sindile
> Filoti
> Degrush
> Maschinot
> Crawford
> C. Zhang
> Meitanis
>
> The following students are getting a thesis off of BLAST somewhere in the
> further future:
>
> Seely - currently studying for his part 3 qualifier
> Clasie - currently studying for his part 3 qualifier
> Karpius - currently taking a full load of coursework
>
> As for the rest, J. Burton quit MIT 9 months ago; I don't think we can
> count on him for any shifts. S. Stave does NOT work on BLAST; he is
> getting his thesis from Mainz data!!! As for Xiao and Y. Zhang, I do not
> know if either of them still works on BLAST.
>
> As such, there are 8 grad students (who should be) giving full time to
> BLAST and three more giving part-time to the project.
>
> Additionally, throughout any particular week, there are a total of 3*2*7 =
> 42 shifts that need to be taken. If we count all 8 full-time grad
> students as 8 full-time shift takers and if we count two part-time
> students together as 1 full-time shift taker (the remaining one shall be
> lumped together with the "professor" group to equal 1 full-time shift
> taker), then we have a total of 10 full-time shift takers. Now 42/10 =
> 4.2 shifts / per person / week on average.
>
> Now the proposed shift schedule (I know it's not the best, but no one
> else seems to be talking... ):
>
> 1. First off, the following proposed schedule is only for commissioning.
> For the actual experiments, a different schedule would probably make
> more sense.
>
> 2. We place two grad students on shift for morning and evening
> shift, seven days a week.
>
> 3. Only 1 grad student is placed on shift during the weekday
> afternoon shift, as there are always people who can cover if that
> student needs to go to the South Hall or whatever.
>
> 4. One grad student and one non-grad student are placed on the weekend
> afternoon shift.
>
> 5. Each grad student taking shifts does so for seven consecutive days at
> the same-time shift (e.g. Aaron takes 7 consecutive morning shifts).
> This way, each student will have every other week off of shift-taking
> so that he can pursue other tasks. Plus, we'll all become "experts"
> at the same rate. Plus, by taking the same shift for seven days in a
> row, your sleep schedule doesn't become too screwed up.
>
> 6. Week by week the shifts shuffle upwards. That is to say, if Aaron has
> the morning shift for week 1, then he is off week 2, and has the
> afternoon shift for week 3.
>
> An example of this grad student schedule might look like that below (using
> grad students A, B, C, ... J):
>
> Week1
> MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
> Morning A A A A A A A
> B B B B B B B
> Afternoon C C C C C C C
>
> Evening D D D D D D D
> E E E E E E E
>
> Week2
> MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
> Morning F F F F F F F
> G G G G G G G
> Afternoon H H H H H H H
>
> Evening I I I I I I I
> J J J J J J J
>
> Week3
> MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
> Morning C C C C C C C
> D D D D D D D
> Afternoon E E E E E E E
>
> Evening A A A A A A A
> B B B B B B B
>
> Week4
> MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
> Morning H H H H H H H
> I I I I I I I
> Afternoon J J J J J J J
>
> Evening F F F F F F F
> G G G G G G G
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> Once again, this plan is probably not the ideal one. Someone else should
> speak up, too. Once we get realistic about who is actually doing the
> commissioning, things will go a lot smoother.
>
> And if, in some way, this e-mail offended someone, then I am truly sorrow;
> it was not my intention. However, we need to stop side-stepping this
> issue and settle it once and for all.
>
> Aaron
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