Friday, July 07, 2006

Symposium 2006: Highlighting Student and Postdoctoral Research

Every year I’m asked as an intern to participate in the Annual Student Symposium. I had a choice between a poster presentation or a technical talk. Unlike years past, this summer I’ve opted to go for the technical talk.

Upon submitting my registration I received a phone call. The caller informed me that he’d received my registration. He then told me:

“The objective of a technical talk is to communicate information to other scientists.”

I was also instructed that mumbling, monotone speech and use of obscure terminology are not effective methods of communication.

This brings up the question: Does this guy say this to every one? What the hell!

Further more now that mumbling and monotone speech are out I have no idea what I’m going to talk about. Any one got any good ideas?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why don't you just tell them you're a pussy?

Raven said...

With regard to the anonymous comment, I'm not sure what you're refering to but if you mean to suggest I tell the Judges I'm a pussy - I'm too much of a pussy to say something like that.

Anonymous said...

pussy.