With exam season well underway and the snow continually accumulating we believe now is the perfect time to extend our office hours. If you missed our last session feel free to stop by there before you continue.
In this second session we're back with the same professors, but brand new questions! So take off your jacket, sit down and get comfortable, we might be here for a while:
QUESTION ONE: WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE THING ABOUT QUEEN'S?
Professor Cookson-Hills: "It’s a cliché, but I love the Queen’s (academic) community – working with intellectuals and exchanging ideas. Not just at the professoriate level either, but talking with undergraduates, grad students, staff, librarians, and administrators as well."
Principal Woolf: "Too many choices!"
Professor van Deusen: "The students, of course!"
Professor Hardwick: "The ARC pool. Definitely the pool."
Professor Currarino: "The students, absolutely."
Professor D'Elia: "You (the students)."
QUESTION TWO: IF YOU COULD TELL YOUR TWENTY-YEAR-OLD SELF ANYTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Professor Cookson-Hills: "It gets better. That I will soon find good people who love and care for me."
Principal Woolf: "Spend a little less time in the library and a bit more time joining clubs; in particular, join CFRC so you don't have to come back as Principal to fulfill your disc jockey ambitions."
Professor van Deusen: "Believe in yourself"
Professor Hardwick: "Hang in there."
Professor Currarino: "Leave the library! It will be there tomorrow, but the time with your friends, or the concert, or show, or lecture, those moments will never come around again."
Professor Manley: "Relax!"
Professor D'Elia: "Relax and enjoy life more. Don't be so hung up about the future, be open to new experiences, try to forget about yourself and stop obsessing over anxieties (imagined or real) . . . The world isn't against you, and, if it appears so sometimes, then it is the world's loss."
QUESTION THREE: HOW DO YOU TAKE YOUR COFFEE/TEA?
Professor Cookson-Hills: "I take my coffee “medium double-double,” and my tea black."
Principal Woolf: "Milk, no sugar."
Professor van Deusen: "With non-fat milk"
Professor Currarino: "Espresso. Black."
Professor Manley: "With milk."
Professor D'Elia: "A bit of milk. Thanks for offering!"
QUESTION FOUR: WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE YOU'VE EVER TRAVELLED?
Professor Cookson-Hills: "My favorite place in the world was Wellington, New Zealand."
Principal Woolf: "Venice. I get to go to lots of interesting places in my current role, but that one visited as a child, sticks in my memory most.."
Professor van Deusen: "Peru"
Professor Hardwick: "Montreal."
Professor Currarino: "Liguria"
Professor Manley: "This is a tough one, but one of the most interesting and enjoyable places I have visited on my travels is Georgia, in the Caucasus. The country boasts an incredible cuisine (think eggplant, walnut, and pomegranate, cheese breads, and fresh grilled meat skewers), stunning landscapes (mountains as well as deserts), and beautiful and varied architecture (churches, mosques, and synagogues adorn the streets of Tbilisi). Most striking, perhaps, is the unparalleled hospitality."
Professor D'Elia: "I travel a lot and have enjoyed most places -- I drive my wife crazy by always imagining what it would be like to live there . . . Overall, it would have to be Italy for work (research reading 15th c. Latin manuscripts in Vatican and Italian libraries), play, food, beauty, and way of life . . . I also had an amazing 3 weeks in Turkey after a nasty break up with an Italian woman (7 years!) twenty year ago. Ancient ruins are incredible, food, people, and of course the hamam (bath houses) -- I am a hedonist at heart."
QUESTION FIVE: DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE SPOT ON CAMPUS, TO WORK IN OR VISIT?
Professor Cookson-Hills: "The Grad Club – I have spent so many hours hanging out there."
Principal Woolf: "The stacks and reading rooms of Douglas library bring back many pleasant memories."
Professor van Deusen: "Places where there are old trees"
Professor Hardwick: "Douglas library."
Professor Currarino: "Watson 201 (I know, geeky). I also like the Agnes"
Professor D'Elia: "My house…but on Campus, my office in Watson is cool, the library and the "occasional" donut at Mac-Corry."
Well that's all for now folks! We wish you the best of luck during this exam season and hope to see you again after the break! May the odds be ever in your favour.
