Thursday, July 11, 2013

Summer Lab Woes

Well, we're all right in the thick of summer, and apparently that means SUPER CONSTRUCTION for NIU's campus.....



in particular for the area directly above our lab.

In case you didn't know -- the cognition labs at NIU are primarily in the basement (I guess they think nerdy grad students that spend all day thinking about thinking belong in a dark damp basement. It's ok, we make the best of it).


(the picture above are the list of things that could be happening that we as grad students wouldn't know about because our lab has no windows, and is underground... might I mention that once we had a tornado here, and a colleague of mine had NO IDEA until he walked outside hours later and found the tree branches on the ground).

But it is hard to deal when the very diligent construction crew hired by the university to beautify and/or fix our building and surrounding areas is turning our workspace into what is starting more and more to resemble a bomb shelter in a war zone.

How am I supposed to read for my thesis with this racket?? Ugh. Totally should have worked from my back deck today... 6pm cannot come soon enough.


p.s this isn't my back deck. but I wish.

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