Pandanus, Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane
Kashmir Cypress, Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane
(Photographs from Mt Coot-tha taken in the pouring rain, last Sunday. Double-click on the images to view them in the original photostream and click on all sizes and view the large image)
Thought I would do the right thing and be sociable, so I went to the so-called "PostGrads dinner". A lamentable affair. Paid for from school postgraduate funds to the tune of $20 per student, and no-one was prepared (could afford?) to take it further. No grog, and young and full-of-themselves maths boys showing off/out-trumping each other. Now, we stats postgrads do ourselves far better: Fridays we go to one of a number of pubs, buy jars of beer, drink, get chips, buy more beer and get to know each other. A far more satisfactory arrangement.
2 comments:
Sounds like the Stats group has a much better idea of how to socialise! Even if everyone is a poor PhD student, they should be able to chip in for a jug of beer and some hot chips once a week, and that's a great way to get to know everyone...although not the most healthy meal on earth it can be a nice way to pass a Friday night :-)
You are right of course, but for one night a week, it should be OK and the fats are fantastic for slowing the alcohol absorption. The Romans worshipped Bacchus as a god. And I do believe in "In vino veritas". Just taking that edge off our carefulness and fear of being open, does make for what appear to me to be deeper conversations.
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