More importantly, however, our research group took a trip to Puerto Rico. There's a chemistry research group at USC that we've been collaborating with for about 20 years, and every now and then we get together to talk about research. Last time was 2003 in Wyoming, but this year we made the trip to San Juan. Pretty much all expenses were covered, and we were there Friday through Monday.
The hotel had live Latin music every night.
Right outside our hotel was... THE BEACH.The first night, we took a dip at midnight.
During the day the students gave presentations on their research.As you can tell, it was pretty informal--no suits, no ties, and shoes were even optional.
Dinner in Old San Juan
The evenings consisted of beer pong. If you're not familiar with the game... Two teams of two people, trying to throw a ping pong ball into plastic cups of beer. If one team makes it, the other team drinks it. Some people played until 4am, and kept drinking until 6am. They were visibly hurting at the meetings at 8:30 the next morning, to say the least.Sunday we took a hike through the El Yunque National Rainforest.
Our research group
The Final Supper, at a Cuban restaurant.So, now I'm back in reality. It's Thanksgiving, and look what happened last night:
2 comments:
It looks like you had a blast!
Hey Brian,
Just stopped by to say what's up?
It's cool to stay up with you through your blog.
Keep up the good work man!
Peace,
E
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