Yesterday we met for a friendly chat in English, to say goodbye before the school year ends and some of the students graduate. We had tea and snacks, talked about plans for the future, graduation trips, favourite foods and cooking mishaps.
We also discussed methods of improving one's English by oneself (tedtalks are nice!), and problems related to paper proofreading (if your paper returns to you red, it means I understood it, and made it better; if it comes back with a lot of underlines and question marks, but no corrections, then it means you should worry, because your message isn't getting through, and I didn't even know how to make the paper better). We also talked about the differences between humanities, my specialization, and various branches of the exact sciences that my students specialize in. It was an interesting conversation about our methods and purposes, and I was convinced, one more time, that the researchers from these two very different areas of the academia don't get the chance to converse, exchange opinions, and try to understand each other's worth often enough.
Thanks for coming to my seminars, and I hope that what you learned during our short time together will come in handy one day in the future!
