The Reason for Donuts

The following is a semi accurate transcript from the birth of Wednesday Donuts:

Mattias: Hey Heidi, I have an idea.

Heidi: Ok....

Mattias: We sit down here in the basement and we don't get to meet very many people in our department. We work all day everyday, and that's good fun, but wouldn't it be great if we could meet our fellow scientists here at UWM? We used to do this thing called 'Donuts' at my previous post doc at the Hatfield Marine Science Center. We would bring donuts each week, sponsored by one of the faculty, and we would all hang out for a half hour or hour and catch up. I learned some really interesting research from doing this and we even started more inter departmental collaborations. Plus it was good to take a break during the middle of the week. I found my productivity went up too.

Heidi: That's a fantastic idea Mattias! I would like to get to know my fellow grad students too. I'm genuinely interested in what other people are doing. This might help my networking skills too, since it can be difficult to talk to new people sometimes. I like the idea of creating more of a community within our department. It does get mighty lonely down here in basement...

Mattias: Excellent. You're the grad student, so you're going to do all the work, ie find donors, pick up the donuts, set up and take down... those sorts of things. I'm going to write witty emails each week to the department to invite everyone to join us.

Heidi: Sounds good Mattias.

Wednesday Donuts: Trying to create a sense community in the Bio Sci Department since January 2013. Stop on by at 10am in S185 today to grab a slice and meet someone new!

HLH

PS Donuts this week brought to you by members of the Young Lab, Jake and Livia. Jake is a PhD student doing crazy things with meat eating plants... I think he said something about making an army of killer mutant plants for the government. I've never seen Livia before this summer, so its quite possible she's from the government as well, helping him carry out his evil plan, or spying on all of us. It's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for...