Eureka! I found it! The solution to the problem I've been dealing with for months. And it was so simple! I laughed out loud, and walked up and down in the apartment, smiling.
OK, it wasn't like when Andrew Wiles found the solution to Fermat's final theorem (as reported by the BBC), but hey, it was my breakthrough, and I like it!
I think it was Isaac Asimov that was reported to have said that the important moment of research is not when you say "eureka!" but when you say "hmmm. That's interesting." As true as it might be, there is little that can match the bliss of suddenly making a breakthrough, suddenly seeing the solution.
What you always need to do is simply to think a little differently. Group things in a nother order. Why don't they teach you how to do that in grad school? Or perhaps that is exactly what they do, teaching it the hard way?
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