• Question: whats the best part of your day

    Asked by Emily_coffey_14 to Conor, Frederik, Ilaria, Jeffrey, Sarah on 7 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Sarah Doran

      Sarah Doran answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Hey Emily,

      The best part of my day is the very end. Usually the office gets quiet and I get more time to focus on coding

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      Jeffrey Roe answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I have to say the same as Sarah . I work from 10 to 6 or 11 to 7.
      The rest of the office works 9 to 5. Those last two hours when the office is empty, all the emails have been send. I can turn music up loud and just get into a solid bit of coding.

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      Conor McGinn answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Hi Emily,
      My days aren’t structured enough to be able to answer this question well. No two days are really alike (at least not consistently), so only answer I could really give is to say that drinking coffee (I drink alot of coffee) is my favourite time! Haha.
      In term time (September-May), I am kept busy teaching students and supervising student projects. In the summer when these students have holidays, this really frees up my time and I can focus on my research almost 100% of the time. I love these days. Because we have better access to space (no students!) it’s a really good time to plan for building a robot. Coming in to work on the design, assembly and later testing of the robot is really exciting. I am usually a little nervous as it is really only at this point can you start to see how good/bad your design really is. On these days, I typically work long hours (12+ hours), and often work hours without a break – sometimes even forgetting to take lunch. On these days I go home exhausted, but fulfilled and excited, and looking forward to tomorrow when I can do it all again.

    • Photo: Frederik Gossen

      Frederik Gossen answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      The best part of my day is the coffee in the morning and the situation when something finally works after a long while. Unfortunately the second kind of situation does not appear every day 😀

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