University Day
Every February the local universities open up their doors for a Saturday afternoon to entice the current crop of junior-college seniors to apply this summer introduce all the different departments and ‘educational opportunities’. I was mildly involved in organizing the EE department’s involvement, as in I attended a meeting or two, and then asked the student organization to handle the rest – which they did with aplomb.
On the day itself I hiked on over with Anna, who’d just emerged from her weekly English school session. Here be pictures.
My office is in the white-ish building behind the wooden house on the left (that's for sale).
Walking to the exhibition-house during the unexpectedly cold day.
Our destination is there in the middle.
This is Askja, one of those buildings that took years to build, and has been troublesome ever since completion. For example: The dark 'backside' panels have started to peel and are badly rusted, but I don't think there is any money to fix it any time soon.
One of our EE students with a couple of his projects: a motion detecting and tracking camera, as well as a motion controlled water squirt bottle.
More EE students trying to reel in new recruits.
There were quite a few people there, but I think there were more last year. Perhaps everybody was skiing this year?
There was a live band there for a while, which didn't make speaking terribly easy.
Anna getting herself a free hot-dog.
Sometimes it's good to be bilingual.
Visiting the animal-study room. They had a few recently dead animals (or recently thawed not-long-dead animals).