Coming into this project, I already had several years of experience
working with LabVIEW, but I had very little experience in other
languages and no formal training in project maintenance. I spent the
-first two years of my research project floundering about until I
-acquired enough experience to start making progress on a sustainable
-stack\footnote{%
+first two years of my research project acquiring enough experience to
+start making progress on a sustainable stack\footnote{%
Since last summer I've been helping the
\href{http://software-carpentry.org/}{Software Carpentry}
project\citep{wilson06b} reach out to scientists (mostly graduate