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Late Night Post, with Matt Belcher

Sept. 19, 2002

It is late. I've been working on this homework assignment involving a network simulator. I'm still not really sure how I'm supposed to do what I'm supposed to do, but I think I may be getting somewhere. Now here's my dilemma: do I stay up for a while later, possibly get some more work done, but be less rested to continue working tomorrow, or do I go to bed now, possibly lose my train of thought, and be stuck relearning the things I just figured out? Such are the difficulties of being a graduate student.

To further compound matters, Kim will be back for her weekly visit tomorrow evening, and I'd prefer to have less work to do while she is here. On the other hand, she has a paper to write this weekend, so she won't be bored if I spend a lot of time working. I think I'll compromise. I'll stay up a little longer tonight, see how much more I can figure out, and when I get too tired to concentrate fully, I'll go to bed and work more tomorrow.

If you'd like to help out and make everything much simpler, explain to me one of two things about ns: 1) how can I get two Agents on the same Node to talk to each other or 2) How can I get one Agent to communicate with two different Agents on two different Nodes. Either solution will put me significantly further along in my homework.