I hope your week is going well. I am writing you to inform you of several events being put on by the department and the PGSA this Friday (3/8) as part of the prospective grad student visiting weekend. These events are open to all current physics grad students.
5:00pm-6:30pm - Interaction Room - Pizza Dinner with prospective students.
7:00pm-9:00pm - 1703 Byrnebruk Dr., Champaign (Professor TJ Ha's House) -Faculty Reception - Directions from Loomis
9:30pm-??? - PGSA Happy Hour - Visiting Weekend Edition - Quality (110 N. Neil St, the corner of Neil and Chester in Downtown Champaign)
As Dr. Ha's house is pretty far out in Champaign, you will be responsible for your own transportation to and from the faculty party.
More importantly, we will need several drivers to volunteer to drive prospective students from Dr Ha's house to happy hour and from happy hour back to their hotel. If you volunteer for this it is important that you do not back out of this responsibility at the end of the night - i.e. you must stay sober - because we cannot leave any visiting students stranded in Champaign. That being said, the more important trip is from Dr. Ha's to downtown. (The trip from downtown can be bussed or in the past has even been walked).
If you are volunteering to drive from Dr Ha's to Quality or from Quality to the Hotel please let me know:
i) How many you can take in your car
ii) Which leg(s) of the trip
This way I can get a estimate of how much car space we will have.
I hope to see you at some or all of these events.
Zack & the PGSA
PS- We are still looking for about 5 more volunteers for the small groups on Saturday (1:30-3:30). If you haven't yet, please let me know if you are interested.
