We're very fortunate in that I work with blackboards such as the one behind me. I don't have an experimental lab. It was very easy for me and my colleagues here to take our work home and interact via Zoom.
It did slow us down. We were successful, though, in recruiting at all levels. I must say that the place the pandemic hit hardest was in our master's program. Every year we have a class of about 20 to 25 master's students who come for a one-year course. It's largely an international cohort. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, we were not able to actually bring them to Waterloo. That was very difficult for them.
We managed to do it online, but we made a special effort to bring the students here. We got them all here last September. It really added a lot of energy to the institute. It was really a turning point in opening up again the energy and the presence that they had here in the institute.
Well, I'll just close there. Those are my thoughts on the pandemic.