Before I came to Stanford, one MIT professor told me that his experience as a first year professor was of sitting down at his desk Monday morning and then suddenly it is late Friday night and you wonder where the week has gone and why you didn't get any of your to-do items accomplished. He said it's like being eaten by ants. Each request for time that comes in is relatively small but cumulatively they take all of your time away. 


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