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My whole lab moved to a new building today. We've been packing for the whole past two days and then it just took a few hours for the movers to move everything. All our big, expensive equipment (not useful outside of our work and therefore expensive) that had to be packed by companies who sold it to us (to keep the warranty) for a lot of money went on separate ride because it had separate insurance. Everything else was moved together. Now, there's the horribly daunting task of unpacking everything.
I'm going to miss the old building. I will miss the sane colour scheme (new building uses super intense bright colour code). I will miss having computer space where we could all sit together (it's designed awfully in the new building). I will miss having toilets (there are only 3 stalls, not bathrooms - stalls, for the floor and one of them has a glass wall - it's milky glass but you still can see through it and people can see you). Most of all, however, I'm going to miss the view. We had awesome view in the old building - tree covered hills and sky. New building isn't awful but it just can't compare.
The nice thing about the new building is that we finally have enough space to keep all our stuff together in one place. No more borrowing benches from other people. No more running all over the floor to run experiments. But before that can become reality we still need to get all our benches and that's still few weeks. We also need to redo the office so it can house more then one person at the time (meeting with the guy on Monday 8am and I'm not used to getting up that early). We will settle and we will get used to the place because we don't really have a choice. However, the building's problems will haunt us for a long time (bathrooms!). At least we are closer to the centre of the campus and all it's features.
I'm going to miss the old building. I will miss the sane colour scheme (new building uses super intense bright colour code). I will miss having computer space where we could all sit together (it's designed awfully in the new building). I will miss having toilets (there are only 3 stalls, not bathrooms - stalls, for the floor and one of them has a glass wall - it's milky glass but you still can see through it and people can see you). Most of all, however, I'm going to miss the view. We had awesome view in the old building - tree covered hills and sky. New building isn't awful but it just can't compare.
The nice thing about the new building is that we finally have enough space to keep all our stuff together in one place. No more borrowing benches from other people. No more running all over the floor to run experiments. But before that can become reality we still need to get all our benches and that's still few weeks. We also need to redo the office so it can house more then one person at the time (meeting with the guy on Monday 8am and I'm not used to getting up that early). We will settle and we will get used to the place because we don't really have a choice. However, the building's problems will haunt us for a long time (bathrooms!). At least we are closer to the centre of the campus and all it's features.
