Academic Retreat

We had our 2nd Academic Retreat today. Instead of going out, we had our retreat in-house. But we booked a room from another department for our whole day retreat of presentations, sharings and discussions.The quality of presentations, sharings and discussions remained high but the quality of interpersonal interactions suffered because of the close proximity to our workplace. During lunchtime, instead of interacting with one another, quite a few colleagues skipped back to their offices to check emails and to do a bit of work. As a result, I missed out on interacting with some of them. :(