Student strike and San Alberto

So last week, there was a massive student strike planned, and the students were going to blockade the buildings and everything, but it ended up not being a big deal. Most of the students didn't go to class, but the University hired security to prevent them from blockading buildings. There was a pretty big protest in the Plaza Mayor (a couple thousand students were there), but the protests during classes were much more disruptive. Apparently, things were a bit more interesting the Facultad de Historia y Geografía, because there were some students trying to convince other students not to go to class, but most of the foreign students went anyway, because the Bologna Treaty benefits them.

I went to my geo lab, and the prof blamed the low attendance (I was the only student) on the fiesta for San Alberto, who is the patron saint of the Facultad de Ciencias. For the fiesta, there were a lot of good costumes. There was the lab coat (a very useful accessory, because it can be worn for the fiestas for science, medicine, biology and chemistry (chemistry and biology have their own facultads, so they have their own patron saints)), cowboys (the geo department dressed like cowboys), and a very impressive group of people dressed like planets and moons (they even orbited each other).