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- If you must rearrange the furniture, do not put anything in front of the radiators or air conditioners. This makes it impossible to change the air filters, to repair broken units, and/or blocks the warm or cold air from reaching most of the room.
- Do not put anything under ceiling mounted A/C units. They drip in humid months and can ruin your electronics.
- Please let me know if you have any special needs. We will do our best to meet them. I make no promises, but I do like to make life easier. I don’t do Psets.
- Campus "standard" is to assign each student about 50 square feet, so there is not going to be a lot of room for additional furnishings, but ask away if you want. All requests for an in-office couch will be deleted before reading. Those you see in other offices were scrounged by students, not provided by the department, and will need to go to the dumpster when I need the space for real live people. Occasionally your ANS student organization co-chairs will decide to put some of their hard-wrangled funds towards general use 'nice' furniture in public spaces (as seen in the ANS lounge). Other times I can be wheedled into such things. I’d rather buy people nice desk chairs though.
- If you enter via the NW12 front/side doors, please be aware this is a secure building and do not let anyone follow you in (that you don't know). Visitors and delivery people should ring the bell and go to the front desk. I mean it! Don't let anyone in. Be rude if you must. Remember that the NRC regulates that facility and they can be really testy.
- Please do not store personal items in your office (that is, clothes, boxes full of books, exotic pets, personal radioactive waste, etc). Summertime and Winter Break in particular is when we do minor renovations where there may be only a week or two notice. If your stuff from your sublet-ed apartment is in storage bins in your office I might need to haul it away. I could always use more stuff. Please do make your space comfortable for you to work in, within reason. Anything that is renovation-like, please clear with me first. Do your best to minimize damage to walls, floor, ceiling etc. Remember that when you leave, I have to sign your graduation paperwork before you get your degree. This is why. White glove inspections are mandatory.
- No bike storage in offices or hallways. In fact, it’s against fire code, since multiple bikes can be an evacuation hazard. Less importantly, (but important to *me*) lugging a bike through the halls leads to accidental dings and marks on the walls and floors. There also is not enough space. Leave your bike outside. Yes, several professors, who shall remain nameless, are bad boys and keep their bikes in their offices. I’ve told them not to. They are bad and don’t get cookies. Alas they won’t let me fire professors any more.
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