ACS: The good and the bad
A roundup of the pleasant and the very un at the ACS, with an emphasis on facial hair.
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The Good:
-enthusiastic students (overheard at the undergraduate poster fair: "Yeah, proteins are cool.")
-the food at the Division of Chemistry & the Law reception.
-No cell phones have gone off in any of the sessions I have been in.
-No one has been unable to load their PowerPoint.
-The variety and fierceness of the beards and moustaches on display, from the ZZ Top to the Wyatt Earp to the scruffy hipster look. Go unshaven chemists!
The Bad:
-a few small crowds in very large halls. Always makes the speaker look like he or she failed to draw an expected crowd.
-The escalators in the convention center are only one person wide. Therefore, there is none of the "stand on the right, walk on the left" stuff I am used to, and I am forced to just stand there on escalators as they creep up and down at sloth speeds. Actually, the fact that I have found this so deeply irritating has made me wonder if three years of living on the East Coast is starting to get to me.
-Despite CNN being across the street, I have not casually run into Wolf Blitzer—the on-air correspondent who perhaps did more than any other media figure to bring back the beard.
-No peaches are in evidence anywhere, even in the press room fruit plate. C'mon Georgia!
Comments
The good, the bad... no comments about the ugly? And I think a cell phone went off in EVERY session I attended, and it wasn't always mine...
Posted by: Stuart | March 29, 2006 04:51 PM