You're sitting there thinking your thoughts/They're not about what is, but what is not
The best part about life in Oxford is the people. Even though the student population is so transient -- with one finishing DPhil student here today, gone tomorrow, as happened in my lab yesterday -- there's still a sense of constant camaraderie among fellow student-researchers. It's easy to see why some people get here and find themselves in intellectual Mecca, never wanting to leave.
Yesterday I took some people from my lab to lunch in Hertford. And it turned that I seemed to know literally everyone there, and people kept coming up to talk to me, so one of the people I brought started telling people that he was there with me in the hopes of gaining some prestige. It was great fun, and great fun to see everyone around hall and the MCR, including Manky and the 1000-year journey his fur is taking on its way into the salad bar. We were talking about getting hair transplants for Manky at lunch today but it doesn't seem likely to take in a several hundred year old stag corpse.
Today I went to lunch at the Computer Engineering Lab, or more specifically, in the Materials Lab, which is next to the Com Lab. And then I got to see Tom and Jim's respective offices for the first time. It's nice to know that all of us have similar types of offices around here. Their's just has a lot more computers in it.
Also today I decided to embark upon a new blog project, since I realized that I could take pictures on my phone and then post them to the internet with ease and freeness. This was inspired by the blog of one of my best friends, which you can find here: http://todayindenver.blogspot.com/ and where you can get your daily fix of a picture of a place with nice weather.
Mine has a prettier design and a better name ;), but you get the idea. Here's my new one: http://awkford.blogspot.com/
Yesterday I took some people from my lab to lunch in Hertford. And it turned that I seemed to know literally everyone there, and people kept coming up to talk to me, so one of the people I brought started telling people that he was there with me in the hopes of gaining some prestige. It was great fun, and great fun to see everyone around hall and the MCR, including Manky and the 1000-year journey his fur is taking on its way into the salad bar. We were talking about getting hair transplants for Manky at lunch today but it doesn't seem likely to take in a several hundred year old stag corpse.
Today I went to lunch at the Computer Engineering Lab, or more specifically, in the Materials Lab, which is next to the Com Lab. And then I got to see Tom and Jim's respective offices for the first time. It's nice to know that all of us have similar types of offices around here. Their's just has a lot more computers in it.
Also today I decided to embark upon a new blog project, since I realized that I could take pictures on my phone and then post them to the internet with ease and freeness. This was inspired by the blog of one of my best friends, which you can find here: http://todayindenver.blogspot.com/ and where you can get your daily fix of a picture of a place with nice weather.
Mine has a prettier design and a better name ;), but you get the idea. Here's my new one: http://awkford.blogspot.com/