Just a couple of pictures from my traditional, "spend-Christmas-in-the-Cardiff-Physics-Department-because-that's-how-I-roll" trip...
First, undergraduate students in Cardiff now get to build Rube Goldberg machines at the final lab session of the year. We never got to do anything fun like that back in my day...
And second, this notice board attests to the very important research being done in this student office.
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We weren't allowed to.
ReplyDeleteWhat we did is ... still under court seal.