chillin' in the library
Feb. 22nd, 2011 13:13I really like the university library here at SH. Prefer it over the one at Stockholm university, because that one always felt too small for the amount of students and has a very closed in, stuffy air (the lack of good ventilation does not relieve this feeling). SH's new building (it's, what, 10-12 years old?) has loads of windows, pretty good airflow and good self-help stations for finding the books. There's also always somewhere to sit and plenty of sockets for laptop charging purposes
This afternoon they'll hold a spikning ceremony, which translates to a "nailing" ceremony. Someone will pro-publish their doctoral thesis before defending it and apparantly that's traditionally done by nailing the abstract to a wall here in the library. This is pretty "the more you know!" territory for me, tbh, but since this thesis is about East and West Germany and I need to stay here for another few hours to study *cough*instead of updating the blog*cough* I thought I'd stay and have a look.
This afternoon they'll hold a spikning ceremony, which translates to a "nailing" ceremony. Someone will pro-publish their doctoral thesis before defending it and apparantly that's traditionally done by nailing the abstract to a wall here in the library. This is pretty "the more you know!" territory for me, tbh, but since this thesis is about East and West Germany and I need to stay here for another few hours to study *cough*instead of updating the blog*cough* I thought I'd stay and have a look.
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