Dear Physics Community,
Every Spring in mid-April, I begin to hear the sounds of Commencement. Outside my office on Killian Court, a group of carpenters show up and begin to build all the various platforms for Commencement. Here is today’s picture:
We have passed the last day of classes and will have finals next week. I’m strongly encouraging everyone, instructors, staff, and students, to wear masks in the coming weeks to ensure that we can all take part (if we wish to) in Commencement. A positive test next week means being in the gulag while everyone else celebrates the first commencement in 1,069 days.
In exchange for wearing your masks, I promise I will not dun you all again about mask-wearing (or anything else) — we have come a long way, and this looks like the last hurdle.
Peter
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