I had a string of meetings today, the first day back after almost a week
off for snow. Since travel was still disrupted in many parts of the city,
I agreed to meet one out-of-town colleague at her previous appointment
in Silver Spring; we then conducted most of our business on a campus shuttle
bus to College Park. Two of the meetings were with graduate students who
are just starting on major research projects. I tried to give them lots
of research ideas so that they wouldn’t be overly influenced by any particular
idea I suggested. In one caseagain because of travel disruptionswe
conducted most of the meeting standing on top of a pile of plowed snow
in a median strip in a residential neighborhood near the College Park
Metro.