OOC: Before you can enter Professor Antares' office, you must post here first. Please knock, and once you are invited in by the professor, you are free to proceed.


This is a waiting area in the most literal sense - in other words, some empty space no one has found any other use for where students wait until they are allowed to enter Professor Antares' office. The professor, for once recalling that not everyone can make do with a cardboard box, has set out a few chairs for everyone who needs to catch his or her breath after the long trek up the Tower to sit down on.

Cardboard boxes are not completely absent, however. One, turned upside down, has been placed next to the door leading into the office. A stack of magazines has been arranged on top of it, scientific journals that Professor Antares has subscribed to. The Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society are always slightly out of date as Professor Antares keeps the newest ones in his office to catch up on developments in his field.

But what are a few weeks on a cosmic scale? Feel like reading about extra-galactic microquasars? Inflationary spacetime? Weakly interacting massive particle detection? Flip through uncomprehendingly until the professor calls you into his office!