Encounters of the first kind

Now these encounters are of the first kind for any Graduate students, Meetings with advisor.
The only good thing about it is that you get to know loads of new stuff and all recent advances in your research topic, leave alone the money you get as Research Assistantship, but in my case, the bad things count more than the good ones.

To start with, the first is that I am not getting paid(as of now) for my work. I have to earn my living teaching stupid American Under-grads. I call them stupids because of concrete reasons: They are taking Pre-Calculus course, the most basic course in Mathematics, and they don't even know what Real Numbers are! So I had to take the pain of explaining them what they are and yet they seemed to be baffled about the existence of a number called the Square-root of two! I don't complaint much though just because it is so damn easy as I need not prepare for the lectures.

The second of the reasons being the timing. How do you expect a Graduate student, who according to the norm of Graduate life sleeps not before 3 in the night, to wake up at 8 to answer your call( yes my advisor has my mobile number and calls me very often!)!
And then comes the time of meeting. It is at 9:30 in the morning, the time when I am at the pinnacle of laziness and am always half or completely asleep. I have to wake up at 8 and go to the school to attend the meeting.

The third reason, and the most important, results. Advisors are so good..NOT that they demand results in each and every meeting. I totally agree that all they need is results, but then they are never satiated with what you produce. They only want complete results, and when you say that you've done some work, they start lecturing about your indolence. if you want results, why don't you pay me and relieve from my teaching job so that I can work only for you and produce all that you want!

The final reason: resources. They say you can find some papers in some journal and when you go online to get a copy of that journal, you find that your university has not subscribed for that journal! I agree that it is partially the university's fault not allotting proper funds for subscriptions, but if they keep doing so for all the millions of journals in the world, how are they supposed to run the institution? And also, if he wants me to work on some software, he should also be good enough to provide me a copy of that software so that I can work on it in the nights! I can't sit in the office all night long, especially in a place like UMBC(reasons upheld to prevent advertising racism!)

Cheers,
Never mind what I said. Its for the good of your relationship with your advisor.