A great way to get grad students into the lab
admin October 19th, 2007
For the past several days there have been men running around our building doing some kind of remodeling. I am not sure exactly what this remodeling entails, but they tell me that at the end we will have new improved fabulous beautiful lab space. In the grand scale of things, this is a good development, because it means that the period of obscene overcharging, regulatory setbacks, and just pointless time wasting is over, and they are finally going to convert some of the unused classrooms in the building into something useable.
However
Right now as I write this, my feet are vibrating, and I am listening to the deafening sound of, well, I don’t know. It’s not quite a drill, and not quite a saw, but something that vibrates alternately at a low enough frequency to shake my body, and a high enough pitch to permanently ruin my hearing. Then after several minutes of this, there is loud banging, followed by more of the awful vibrating. I don’t know how the guy down there stands it, because I at least have the floor to shield me from the sound, and I am about to put in those earplugs I popped into my purse a while back after not needing them in the plane. One of my colleagues has just left, saying that he just can’t take it anymore. I had considered ditching my office to go do something downstairs in the lab, but it occurred to me that this obnoxious noise (which by the way I am sure is way above the OSHA allowed decibel limit) might possibly be even worse down there in the basement.