The new AY08/09 semester in NUS sees new faces, new additions and new changes in the Geography Department. With 9 new graduate students, the graduate population is now 35-(wo)man strong! We have 3 new PhD students (Anil, Masao and Swe Hlaing!) and 6 new Master students (Serene, Deborah, Jianhao, Fred, Aidan and Xiaolu!).
We also say our congratulations and farewells to the Master (Brian, Daryl, Junfeng) and PhD (Desmond, Sarah, Shurong) students who just submitted their theses after much gruesome edits and tiresome rewrites. Hope I didn’t miss out any names!
Some of us are also saying farewell to the desks that we’ve been calling our own for the past semesters. With the population growth, our carrying capacity has been pushed to its limits. New seating arrangements were introduced and we join the ranks of silicon valley with the introduction of the hotdesking system. New lockers are also installed at the corridors of AS2 level 4. Goodbye keys and hello new digital locks! Dedicated room for graduate teaching assistants and graduates in their final writing stages were also introduced.
Of course, this semester also sees the birth of this brand new blog for and by the geog grad students, hosted by Blog.nus (an initiative by CIT). Hopefully we can sustain this blog with exciting news over the next semesters. Contribution of stories are most welcome. If you have just published an article, would like to invite others to a presentation or even looking for translators or field/research assistants, please email November or Louis. Or you can join us as a contributor and update this blog directly!
Feedback would be most welcome. Leave a comment on what other features you would like to see on here. Thanks!
