The long-awaited Grad Lounge renovations will begin Monday, October 7th! That means we need to have everything cleared out of the lounge by the end of the day on Friday, and we need your help! Please see below for details on how to help clear out the lounge, and where everything is going during construction. Updates about the grad lounge will be posted here on https://pgsc.physics.wisc.edu.
Clearing out the lounge:
- Cleaning during Cookie Time: Today at 2:30pm, please come help throw out garbage and clean off furniture to prepare it for storage.
- Take anything that is yours out of the lounge before Friday at 4:30pm.
- Return anything you borrowed from the lounge before Friday at 4:30pm. For example, we are missing 1 light blue plate and a bunch of red-handled silverware (2 spoons, 3 knives, 4 forks). There should be 4 of each of these things.
- Clearing-out Day: Friday at 4:30pm we will start clearing out anything that is still left in the room. This shouldn’t take too long as long as a decent number of people show up. Please do not make me do this by myself. Snacks will be provided.
Temporary storage locations:
- Fridge and microwave will be moved to the Grad Computing Lounge (3309). Note that there is no sink in this room, so we probably will not store the dishes here. Everyone should have a key to this room. If you do not, please see Aimee Lefkow.
- TV and games will be stored either in Brent Mode’s or Neil Leonard’s office. I will post the room number on https://pgsc.physics.wisc.edu once it is finalized.
- Furniture and the (folded) ping pong table will be stored in a room on the 4th floor TBD.
- Everything else will be stored in my (Susan Sorensen’s) office (5302). If you do not take your stuff out of the grad lounge before Friday afternoon, this is probably where it will end up. (Note that this is a shared office, so there will also be a lot of non-grad-lounge stuff in there. If you need to come pick something up from me, please be respectful of the space.)
- Keep an eye out for emails from the PGSC social committee regarding the temporary relocation of Cookie Time.
As a (very) rough estimate, the construction may take around two months. We will update this estimate on our website as the construction progresses. If you have any questions/comments about any of this, please email me or post to the PGSC anonymous comment box on https://pgsc.physics.wisc.edu/comment-box/. I hope you are all as excited for the new lounge as I am!
Best wishes,
Susan Sorensen & the rest of the PGSC