We’ve got reached the tip of Week 9 at Maynooth College, so there at the moment are simply three weeks to go till finish of time period. Suddenly the retailers are crammed with Christmas whatnots and thingies, and I’ve lastly bowed to stress and acquired a ticket for this 12 months’s Messiah.
As traditional for this time of the 12 months now we have a pair of Open Days for undergraduate admissions. The primary was at present, Friday, and catered primarily for college journeys whereas tomorrow’s (i.e. Saturday’s) is normally extra mother and father with their offspring. In the course of the pandemic these occasions have been on-line however we’re now having them on campus in order that potential college students see the necessary options on campus within the flesh:
For the previous few years, I’ve been the principle particular person chargeable for operating the Theoretical Physics a part of these Open Days however now that obligation has handed on to the brand new Head of Division. It’s not that I disliked doing these occasions, it’s simply that I feel it’s higher any further to have a brisker face doing them. As we speak for me has subsequently largely been a traditional educating day and I’m additionally capable of have a lie-in tomorrow morning.
In previous years, earlier than the pandemic, some lectures have been cancelled to make method for Friday Open Day talks. That has included the Friday lecture of my 2nd 12 months module on Vector Calculus which takes place in a room beforehand wanted for admissions enterprise on Open Days. Now, nevertheless, a brand new educating constructing is on the market and lots of the Open Day talks are in there so my lecture went forward as deliberate. The room subsequent door to mine was nevertheless used for the Open Day and a bunch of about ten schoolgirls, wearing inexperienced blazers and plaid skirts in a way extremely harking back to the Derry Women, virtually got here into my lecture by mistake.
I noticed fairly just a few guests across the campus this morning, and a few got here into the Science Constructing for a go searching, however I don’t know the way busy the day was compared to earlier November occasions on campus. I don’t know the way busy will probably be tomorrow both, as I shall be placing my ft up at residence.
As we speak wasn’t fairly a traditional day, nevertheless. I had lunch in Pugin Corridor. I used to do this often earlier than the pandemic however at present was the primary time I’ve been there since March 2020. Both Pugin Corridor has been closed or I’ve been too busy to have something apart from a sandwich in my workplace.
