I am a last-year (probabilistically) PhD student advised by Prof. Laxmikant V. Kale. As awkward as it sounds, I am one of those guys that get excited when things fail. That's probably the reason I ended up working on fault tolerance. I spend most my time at PPL thinking about how to make HPC applications run even if the hardware is not reliable. Eventually, I will make a living out of providing solutions for the worst case scenario in HPC: one where failures occur rather frequently. I do not feel bad about it. After all, a large portion of professionals build their careers because things go wrong: doctors, lawyers, firefighters, mechanics, etc.