Day 90 - From Dorset to Windsor Hall

Sunday was another great day in Dorset. It started early, as in right after we came back from the pub Saturday night. We played ping pong and badminton in the game room of the place we stayed at, and had some interesting conversations. I found out one of the students went to the Christian Union (and saw me there), another went to a university in Aberystwyth (home of the Nat'l Library of Wales, where I plan to go in a couple weeks), and another gave me quite a challenge at badminton.

After a few short hours of sleep, my group went to Durlston Head (on the cliffs overlooking the English Channel) to launch a weather balloon and later gave another fun presentation about it. Later in the day, I came back to Reading having several more friends than when I left.

Shortly after getting home, while I was in the middle of working on something, the fire alarm went off (again) and everyone had to evacuate the building. It was annoying. And it was very strange being out in the car park with all the Windsor Hall people again. It was then that I noticed the vast difference between the maturity level of students (mostly freshers) at my hall compared to the meteorology grad students who I spent the previous 3 days with. Nothing against the Windsor Hall people. I have some good friends here, and I like almost everyone here. But it's obvious that compared to the meteorology grad students, they're at a different place in their lives and generally have a much different reason for being at this particular university.

posted by Matt @ 11:58 PM