Poster Session I

Well, today was poster session one.. and personally I think it went great! I was a bit nervous and scattered at first, but today's poster session I think was a very good warmup for the big one that is tomorrow. I learned two very important lessons
very quickly:

1.) Bring a bottle of water. After talking for two minutes you get
incredibly thirsty.
2.) No matter how cute and professional your favorite pair of
stilletos are, DO NOT WEAR THEM TO A POSTER SESSION. You are on your feet for too long to endure that much pain. I practically had to hobble the way back to the dorm, and one of the guys in my program (Nick) took pity on me and carried me part of the way back. My solution? Flip flops for tomorrow!

A lot of people seemed interested in my research too... I talked to I think
6 or 7 different people about the project, which I think was pretty
good for two hours. I am also very happy that my advisor suggested all the changes she did about my poster; one of the diagrams that she suggested I make was so essential to the success of the poster; I found myself pointing to that one quite a bit, and it made explaining everything else much much easier.

Also.. the poster looks really, really pretty! Even though the design was simple, it was very clean, and I think (with some bias ;-) ) that I had one of the better looking posters at the sesion (I even got it laminated!). Oh man... sooo pretty! <3 I explained to the boys that I think that the poster is so pretty because my advisor is a female, and us women have an eye for prettiness ^-^

Well, that's all the news about the poster. I am pretty giddy and excited about tomorrow (can you tell?). I think I'll be properly prepared for the presentation. I am also almost done with the second rough draft of my paper; I'll be sending that to my advisor later tonight.

So that's all the good news. The bad news is, I still haven't been able to get a hold of my grad student advisor. This is frustrating, because I really need to talk to him about the program he wrote, since I have to write scripts that need to interact with it. I'm going to send him one last e-mail tonight, hopefully so I can catch him tomorrow.

Well, I better get back to work; I just have to alter the images somewhat, and then I can send in the second rough draft and go to bed! I'm probably going to ask my friends to help read the techinical report for me (or should i save them for the actual paper? hmm...) Have a good night!