• Question: If you are not busy in your lab or doing anything to do with science, what would you do in general?

    Asked by sipho to Andrew, Daniel, Hayley, Natalia, Peta on 18 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Peta Foster

      Peta Foster answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      In general i like to go and see my friends, do sport and listen to music. I love playing games so me and my friends are always getting together to do that. I like going swimming and learning karate.. oh and i love to travel.

      I also like experimenting with food… trying new recipes and making cakes and chocolates and i love trying new exotic fruits. I like writing stories and playing music and composing songs and i also enjoy tutoring students in science 🙂

      I enjoy everything really… it’s just finding the time 😛

    • Photo: Hayley Smith

      Hayley Smith answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      I have many other hobbies outside of science: sports (football, basketball, rounders, tennis, squash, golf, swimming…anything really!), jazz, astronomy (granted, that’s a pretty sciencey hobby).

      But in general, given some free time you’ll most likely find me playing sports or eating tasty food.

    • Photo: Daniel Scully

      Daniel Scully answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      If I haven’t spent too much time at work on the computer my favourite way to unwind is on my xbox. I like mostly go for adventure and racing games, but I’ll give anything interesting a go.

      My other hobby is making websites – although science is a creative job, I don’t get to do much design work!

      When the weather’s nice my girlfriend and I also enjoy taking our dog out to the countryside for a nice walk and if there’s a stream a swim (the dog swims, not me).

    • Photo: Andrew Cairns

      Andrew Cairns answered on 17 Nov 2011:

      Well, tricky question.
      I spend a lot of time hanging out with my friends, they are from all over the place and some have now sadly moved away from Oxford, so it gets tricky. I also volunteered as president with a student charity, so I used to spend a lot of time making sure all the other volunteers were okay, and that would mean a lot of sitting in coffee shops…

      Which brings me on to food. I love food of all kinds, and like to cook. Yes you may say cooking isn’t the most ‘manly’ of things, but I see it as Chemistry that makes a nice cake at the end! My flatmate is vegan this year so I am learning a lot about how to cook vegan food.

      I also like listening to music (on my own or at gigs in Oxford) or going to the cinema or to see a play.

      If it’s nice outside, a walk is always good, although we usually end up in a pub to warm up.

      And reading, and photography. Oh and travelling! When I have the money! Like Dan says, it is good to get out into the countryside and to have a creative output in days that are often very scientific!

    • Photo: Natalia Parzyk

      Natalia Parzyk answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      always lots of ideas but lack of time to realise them;)

      but when I have time what I’m mostly doing is meeting my friends (or talking by skype – left some friends at Poland) or going to the mountains, or the perfect combination is going to the mountain with friends:) as I want to go higher and higher – been at Alps this summer and want to be back next year, so I’m also doing some climbing
      apart from that for me good way to spend some time is a good book, film, music, theatre, art gallery, concert.. any kind of around art activity

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