Pride and Ignorance

Time to perform a diatomic molecular orbital simulation on the dept's supercomputer: tiny split second
Time to do the same job on the office's Pentium III 650: 7 min (times 10 for each of the 10 molecules on the homework)

Guess which one I chose? And that because I'm still contemplating to ask current object of (misguided) affection, or anyone else for that matter, for a tip on how to run the Unix system. Is it pride or is it simply ignorance? There's a thick boundary layer of stupidity in between.