Dear all
This email might be little bit awkward, not so polite and I apologize in advance if my word hurt someone here.
Generally speaking, please please don't spend too long time chatting loudly in the lab(like over few hours), especially when other people use the same space working and struggling on their code at the same time.
Personally I'm not trying to say that no one should talk at all in the lab. We all know that the DGP Lab is a space not only for our research work, but also for us to communicate with each other, sharing ideas and enjoying joys with friends. But meanwhile, I hope everyone understand that the DGP Lab is not a public bar, means that chatting and laughing over multiple hours with childish topics is totally not a good thing, especially when other people expecting to use the same space for working at the same time. For some people, those sounds are the source of joy and fun, but meanwhile, same sounds can be noise for others, which will ruin their work at same time.
Rather than the noise part, when someone continuing those long chatting in the lab, it actually create an "environment", makes some people think "hey so many people are enjoying something together, it might be very awkward if I'm not joining them and try to stop them", in which is actually doing more damage to those people who planned to work, but joined the random talking later.
At least from my side, I saw so many times that after those chatting session done, those friendly guys has to go back to their working station, struggling their works until 1 - 2 am, or even sacrifice the following night, in order to compensate their wasted time.
All in all, I'm not trying to stop the conversation itself in the lab, as I personally also enjoyed a lot from those short leisure chatting, no matter related or non-related to the research. But please, don't spend too long time chatting loudly in the lab area. There are so many other choices, like DCS lounge, seminar room or a pub outside can serve a party around, but please don't use the lab itself for that.
And also, as a not so friendly person, I'm sorry that I always choose to break those joyful environment with an awkward request. As a new Ph.D. here, I might misunderstand some general rules here in the DGP Lab. If there are some rules similar as "after 6:00pm the DGP Lab is a party space and no one is allowed to continue working here", please let me know, I'll apologize and adjust my working habits then. Otherwise, please.
Thank you for reading those awkward words, and apologize again if those words might hurt someone here.
Sincerely
Fengyuan Zhu