# Leaving Philly Soon

  I have been in Philadelphia for half a year now, I like the city to be
honest. Unfortunately, my lab PI is not a kind person and she certainly
does not appreciate mutual respect. I enjoy life here, I like my
labmates and new friends I made here. Doing research here is definitely
much more facinating and exciting. Living in Philly is good because it
is a fairly big city with diverse population. University city is crowded
with collage students and faculty, researchers and hospital staff. I
live in walking distance to several supermarkets and also Chinatown.
Food is not really what this city is famous for (or this should I say
this COUNTRY?) but it is fine since I cook basically everyday.
  
  Anyway, I am leaving her lab soon. I have to. Though I do not
necessarily want to. But I do not consider it unfortunate now that
things have gone this way.

  My laptop was blocked by campus network as they detected some malware
I was running, which they would/could not identify exactly. I just came
to work one day noticing my laptop is offline even though connected to
workplace WiFi. Did everything I could only realized that my phone works
fine but laptop is offline even connected. After I removed all config
files and tried to setup network again, the login page then notified
that my device was blocked. Wrote email to tech support, they told me I
was running malware on my Windows system and I had to run full disk
scan, which I did and found nothing. They then proposed I had to
reinstall system, which I preferred not to since I am using my personal
computer for years and reinstalling evething would take ages. I asked if
they would remove my devce from blocklist since I use Debian Linux most
of the time and that what they thought they had found as malware was
from Windows, which of course they would not agree. They insisted
reinstalling system so I gave up talking to them. Since they blocked my
laptop running Windows which also happened to get my Linux desktop
blocked, I supposed they were doing this based on hardware detection,
MAC address maybe? Then next step is simple, I changed my MAC address in
Debian and wala, I can connect again! This is anyway, a hole in block
system I suppose.