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I've never seen anybody strut around the afternoon poster session in a bikini on the way to a volleyball game, although I keep hoping. You could always be the first to do so. Don't think I haven't thought about it. The problem is that we're usually only given one free drink ticket for the poster session, and I can't afford the $8.00 for a beer after I use up my one ticket. I would need way more than one free drink to strut my stuff. A hip flask, that's what you need. Well, just don't try to wear it with the bathing suit... Perhaps that depends where you stash it. Alan Like many of life's problems, duct tape is the solution to keeping your flask handy. I suppose you could wuss out and just carry the flask in a tote bag, but a duct tape bandoleer for your flask, snacks, and camera is the fun solution. |
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« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2008, 09:46:12 AM » |
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« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2008, 10:38:53 AM » |
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we're usually only given one free drink ticket for the poster session
Wait, you get drink tickets? At a *poster session*? I'm in the wrong field. |
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« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2008, 10:44:08 AM » |
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I just returned from my discipline's annual conference and I went swimming every morning while I was there. While coming out of the sauna with a colleague one morning bumped into one of the people from my panel the previous day, me without towel, her in a robe. Big deal. The men's and the women's saunas were obviously separated, but the whole thing seems silly to me. Have I just been in Germany too long to appreciate how awkward this ought to be?
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« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2008, 11:25:22 AM » |
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we're usually only given one free drink ticket for the poster session
Wait, you get drink tickets? At a *poster session*? I'm in the wrong field. Of course! Have you never heard of the 6-6-6 guidelines for making a poster? A person must be able to read the entire poster in six minutes, from six feet away, after drinking six beers. |
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« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2008, 09:38:20 PM » |
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I don't understand what's the big deal seeing other people swimming/exercising.
Regarding drinks at a poster session: at the annual conference where I go to, they give out drink tickets for an awards luncheon. Graduate students can also attend a networking reception - free food and drinks!
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« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2008, 01:15:46 AM » |
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Ha! At my annual conference, the afternoon beer's free.
discordia, want to co-author an abstract?
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« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2008, 07:54:58 AM » |
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Have I just been in Germany too long to appreciate how awkward this ought to be?
Yes. We Americans are quite prudish. |
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« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2008, 11:43:16 AM » |
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What about if you're not staying at the conference hotel, but want to sneak in to use the pool? Suggestions? I imagine being frog-marched, in speedos, through the front lobby. Is this what gets called 'being memorable'?
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« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2008, 12:16:40 PM » |
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Ha! At my annual conference, the afternoon beer's free.
discordia, want to co-author an abstract?
Sure! I am truly amazed at this. In my field, there is only a cash bar with $6 beer and wine. Actually, once, I think there may have been complementary wine at an awards reception I went to, but of course that was not an open event. |
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« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2008, 07:45:31 PM » |
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For years, there was a fantabulous wine reception that was either cheap (small cover charge) or free (for students) for one of the association's sections, organized by two of the members. Lots of great wines. A little food was provided to cushion the blow. There were a few people who would get, um, very, er, you know. After many years they stopped and the association took over. Made it a boring hotel cash bar sort of thing. I still go to see people, but it ain't the same.
Then there's the night-before-start-of-conference ice-breaker...
I love my conference.
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« Reply #26 on: March 20, 2008, 09:43:07 PM » |
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For years, there was a fantabulous wine reception that was either cheap (small cover charge) or free (for students) for one of the association's sections, organized by two of the members. Lots of great wines. A little food was provided to cushion the blow. There were a few people who would get, um, very, er, you know. After many years they stopped and the association took over. Made it a boring hotel cash bar sort of thing. I still go to see people, but it ain't the same.
Then there's the night-before-start-of-conference ice-breaker...
I love my conference.
We can't possibly be going to the same conference, can we? A couple of years ago, I did a stint at the membership table for our division and we were giving out free beer for new signups. The Tuesday afternoon poster session always ends with the free wine and cheese reception and the Sunday night "Welcome Session at the Local Pub" tends to generate lots of interesting gossip for the rest of the week. |
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« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2008, 12:58:21 PM » |
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The best are conferences that have a dance. My main field conf doesn't have one, and I always think that's a real shame.
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« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2008, 03:52:45 PM » |
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I was on the local arrangements committee one year for our conference and arranged for a honky-tonk Texas swing band and for swing dance lessons. It was a blast!
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« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2008, 03:41:59 PM » |
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I know this may be a strange question, but is it appropriate to go swimming, lay out by the pool or get sweaty at the gym at the conference hotel? I am accustomed to a large amount of distance between personal and professional life, and therefore I am not sure what is appropriate when the two come together at a week-long conference. Are there any rules of etiquette that I should be aware of?
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