Somewhere else to study

[major_clanger]

So, there I was late this morning, having gone to Middle Temple to drop off my membership application (doing it in person saves faffing around with entrusting my degree certificate to the mail or getting a certified copy). I'd bought the laptop with me so that I could do some work, although I was a bit away from the places I'd used before, such as the BL or Senate House.

At that point I remembered why the area was vaguely familiar; a few hundred yards along the Embankment is Savoy Place, the main London headquarters of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. [Or rather the Institution of Engineering and Technology as it now is, after a couple of mergers. I still think of it as the IEE, and I was amused to see that the prominent gold-leafed inscribed name over the entrance has obviously proved too expensive to change.] Savoy Place has a library; I'd not been in for a while, but it turns out to be a very nice library, with plenty of desks, power points, free wifi (if you log in with your member details) and a nice view over the Thames towards the South Bank. Savoy Place also has a very nice Members' Bar, which not only does good lunch snacks but also has INFINITE SUPPLIES OF FREE COFFEE for IET members! Given local coffee prices, I only have to drink about fifty coffees a year to save the equivalent of my membership fees.

IET for teh win, as I believe the young people say today.

Comments

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

That's very good news. I have got to start getting out of the house to study, it's the only way I work properly.

Let me know if you have time to meet for lunch one day. The Indian food at this place (behind my office) is pretty good.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Definitely - I'll let you know when I'm going to plan to be around. For that matter, I'll presumably be using the Middle Temple law library in future, so should be around even more.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Although I've been an MIEE/MIET for a while I always forget to go to Savoy Place when in in That London. In fact I don't think I've been there since I've been a member - I spoke there a few times as a researcher.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

I hang out at IOD . Wine bar is nice and they have big loos to change in .

ROSL is good but I wish they would enforce the rule about slinging you out if you talk business in the bar

[anef.livejournal.com]

Well, Savoy Place is about 10 minutes' walk from my office, so ditto on the lunches. I work in London on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, though we mostly have training on Tuesday lunchtimes. What is nice to do on fine days is to take a sandwich into Temple Gardens and sit about on the grass.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

OK - I'll see what we can work out!