SPS in TODAY

Being informed by Karen of the Science Dean's Office during the Open House last Saturday, I picked up a copy of TODAY today and found a SPS photo used in a Faculty of Science full page advertisement.



Urgh! I look disturbing in that photo, particular with that Guards singlet. If I had known, I would've chosen a proper T-shirt.

Anyway, it's so nice of Dean's Office to include a small writeup for SPS as well!

One Down; Two More to Go

With quite some relief, last Saturday's Science Open House went smoothly. The SPS Flyer which I had to rewrite almost everything turned out well, and I did manage to find some helpers in the end. And I think we did promote SPS well enough. At least we seem to have gathered more interest than previous years.

But that's one down, and two more's looming at the horizon. First is the Physics Enrichment Camp (for JC kids) this Thursday and Friday. As a experiment demonstrator, it turns out that I've gotta explain, present and assist the students repeatedly for four hours. And then, secondly, next week, the Physics Open House is here, and again I'm the lab demonstrator. Not sure how long that'll last, but I think it's time for me to buy some Strepsils.

And once that's done, I can finally move on to other stuff! More on that later.

Gosh! What's with the Weather?

It has been maddeningly hot today, and also for the past few days. On my Yahoo! Mail main page, there's a info bar on the weather, and this afternoon it stated that the (current) temperature was 33 °C, and the highest temperature for today was 32 °C. Hmm... I suppose the heat has gotten to the Yahoo! server.

In any case, it does seem that Yahoo! Mail hasn't been in the right state of mind these few days. I realised that some of my SPS mails which were forwarded to that account were missing. A test mail from my NUS account failed to turn up. Ah well, the heat, the heat...

And speaking of SPS, that's what's been keeping me (relatively) busy the past week. I've been trying to make preparations for the Faculty of Science Open House, but I'm having trouble finding volunteers, which isn't very unexpected, to be honest. And then I need to re-design the flyer, but I noticed that my writing skills seem to be inversely correlated to the temperature.

Yeah, it's all back to the heat.

Stupid. Weather.

So Closes Another Chapter

With the conclusion of my last paper on Wednesday, it's the end of another semester for me... It was busy all the way for me until today, actually, as immediately after my paper on Wednesday afternoon, I went for the SPS chalet that lasted till yesterday.

In any case, the long vacation has commenced, and it feels awfully weird that there is suddenly so much time. The first long vacation after my first year was pretty much wasted on many random and trivial tasks. The second one was spent in Australia by getting there way too early. Now, this one... I do have several things in line for myself, including a few promises I hope I can fulfill.

But I think I deserve slightly more break after a tedious semester (on top of the chalet, of course). My vacation plans and work can start slowly.

Best of Luck for All Electrodynamics Students!

Tomorrow, the mega showdown. Usually I refrain from spamming my blog on individual wishes for exams, but I think everyone taking PC4242 Electrodynamics really need them.