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## Racket Games with the SLR Lab

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One time the PI of our SLR Lab took me and another RA out to play badminton and table tennis. It was not a serious sports day. We played, missed shots, picked up balls, laughed a bit, and drifted between the two games in the slightly messy way small group outings usually go.

I liked it because it made the lab feel like more than papers, meetings, and tasks. Those things matter, but a lab also has a feeling to it, and you can tell whether people are just working in the same place or whether there is some actual warmth around the work. That afternoon tipped it towards the second, nothing dramatic, just a good lab atmosphere showing up on an ordinary day.