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elanya at 06:39pm on 03/01/2012 under a&m, gradschool, personal organization, phd, sha, social
elanya at 06:39pm on 03/01/2012 under a&m, gradschool, personal organization, phd, sha, socialFascinating, I know.
I am going to SHA again this year, and I leave... tomorrow! Am I ready? Hello no! When I started my program, I was the kind of person who would have their presentation started months early, and the powerpoint ready to go a week before the conference. Today... I have one slide done. It is the introductory slide and my great accomplishment is that I have *gasp* selected the slide layout I want to use maybe! I'm honestly not done culling all the info I need for the tables that are supposed to be the whole point. I've realized that this isnt ong to happen, so I am just using a selection of them, and accepting that it is a 15 min presentation and this is going to have to be Good Enough. I miss the excited on-the-ball student I used to be, but honestly this is year 6 in this program and year 8 of consecutive gradschool and I'm feeling worn. I need to push through and get out, is what I need to do.
I'm exaggerating slightly on the state of my presentation - Most of the things I need to say are already written, I just need to cull them from the presentation I did this summer for the Bahamas Historical Society. Most of the slides and other stuff is there too, it just needs some rearranging. And I'll have plenty of time to get everything done.
I'm looking forward to the conference on other levels, too - it is always nice to see folks that I don't have as much contact with, and this year there will be a Special Guest Appearance from L7Annie (The Other Lannie) who I haven't seen in... a year or more? I am excited to see her and hear all about her adventures :D I'll see Merc and Brad and some other now-gone A&M folks as well... I've never been to Baltimore either, so it will be neat on that front... oh and of course I'm sure there will be some interesting presentations - there always are :)
Right now I am going out to dinner with some local friends and extended local friends who are passing through town, so hooray! And then I come back and Pack All The Things. I keep threatening to go back to my list-making ways, but maybe I actually will tonight.
I am going to SHA again this year, and I leave... tomorrow! Am I ready? Hello no! When I started my program, I was the kind of person who would have their presentation started months early, and the powerpoint ready to go a week before the conference. Today... I have one slide done. It is the introductory slide and my great accomplishment is that I have *gasp* selected the slide layout I want to use maybe! I'm honestly not done culling all the info I need for the tables that are supposed to be the whole point. I've realized that this isnt ong to happen, so I am just using a selection of them, and accepting that it is a 15 min presentation and this is going to have to be Good Enough. I miss the excited on-the-ball student I used to be, but honestly this is year 6 in this program and year 8 of consecutive gradschool and I'm feeling worn. I need to push through and get out, is what I need to do.
I'm exaggerating slightly on the state of my presentation - Most of the things I need to say are already written, I just need to cull them from the presentation I did this summer for the Bahamas Historical Society. Most of the slides and other stuff is there too, it just needs some rearranging. And I'll have plenty of time to get everything done.
I'm looking forward to the conference on other levels, too - it is always nice to see folks that I don't have as much contact with, and this year there will be a Special Guest Appearance from L7Annie (The Other Lannie) who I haven't seen in... a year or more? I am excited to see her and hear all about her adventures :D I'll see Merc and Brad and some other now-gone A&M folks as well... I've never been to Baltimore either, so it will be neat on that front... oh and of course I'm sure there will be some interesting presentations - there always are :)
Right now I am going out to dinner with some local friends and extended local friends who are passing through town, so hooray! And then I come back and Pack All The Things. I keep threatening to go back to my list-making ways, but maybe I actually will tonight.
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