Nature Blogger and Tuft grad student Sohini Mazumdar asks: Why do grad students skip poster contests?
Conversation overheard in the corridor while waiting for an elevator:
Student #1: The poster competition was today?
Student #2: Oh yea it was.
Student #1: Did you participate?
Student #2: Pshhhhhhhhhhhhh! I see those emails and promptly delete them. I haven’t been a good graduate student in 5 years… why bother now?
Me (in my head, as I get on the elevator): Does the fact that I knew about this competition and voluntarily participated in it (no PI pressure) make me a crazy person? Or a geek? Or both?