The View.
While standing at my bench, if you look to the right, you'll see my lab desk and my window. We're on the third floor, which is really the fourth floor (Here in Europe, ground floor is 0 and the second floor is called the first, etc), so we are high enough to get a decent view. The lab building is built in the heart of the city, so there are apartment complexes all around this side of our lab. I find it quite amusing that people can sit on their balconies and watch me do my work in lab - maybe I'll make some new friends that way!

The window directly to the left of the one in the picture opens completely inward, and it it is possible to climb out and onto the narrow balcony that lines the perimeter of the building. Given this decent view, when the rest of the lab arrives, I plan on moving all of my paperwork to this desk. It will be much more efficient to have my bench very close to place I do my computational and book work.