It’s been a busy week. Today, I got to have lunch with Prince Michael of Kent when he came to the Business School at Oxford. A charming fellow, he sponsors a Russian student each year on the MSc in Management Research course.
Yesterday I kicked off the Work in Progress Series at the Martin Institute. This is a weekly meeting (much like a lab meeting in the physical sciences) where students and faculty alike present their current projects in whatever for they have them for comments from the rest of the Institute. I think this is a great way to develop the Institute’s already strong sense of community and to help each other from getting stuck for too long. To encourage attendance, I decided to write a little poem, which I post just for the hell of it. What will tomorrow bring? We can only guess.
There once was an Institute named Martin
Whose research was up and startin’
But when researchers got stuck
they were out o’ luck
’til a colleague the fog began partin’
Then from above came a thought
That might help the researchers a lot
“Let’s meet once a week
And discuss the latest feat
To keep those ideas thick ‘n hot!”