MOST of these things did not happen at this year's conference. I have seen a few of them (food running out, "dominance mounting" of grad students, flashdrive won't read, skipping of breaks, theft from display tables) happen at different conferences down through the years. Some of the more ridiculous ones (drunk speaker, vomiting grad student) are plausible but I have never seen them.
Let’s play…..
CONFERENCE PROBLEM BINGO!!!!!!!!!!
Food runs out at banquet or mixer
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Big famous guy doesn’t show up to give plenary talk
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Power outage
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Pages in proceedings inserted upside-down
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Projector bulb burns out during plenary
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Someone with an incomprehensible accent giving a talk
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Someone’s abstract left out of proceedings
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Conference room is 20 degrees too hot
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Not enough chairs in room
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“We ran over time with the last few talks so let’s just skip the
break”
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Semi-famous bitter person asks “dominance mount” question of grad
student
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Theft from university-press vendor’s table
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FREE
SPACE
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Speaker is drunk or high
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Overzealous “parking control” tickets people with conference tags on
their cars
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Heated argument breaks out during “question” session of a talk
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Band at evening mixer too loud; no one can talk
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Remote control breaks
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Conference room is 20 degrees too cold
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Computer won’t read presenter’s flashdrive
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Moderator fails to moderate and session becomes extremely
out-of-synch with others
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Really tall people in front row of audience; no one else can see
slides
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No refreshments provided at break/refreshments greatly delayed
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Grad student giving first conference talk ever faints or throws up
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Poster room has lighting too dim for anyone to read the posters
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1 comment:
Wow, I am so lucky I go to friendly conferences. The only things I could check off in my 20 years of conference=ing is the cold conference room and the malfunctioning computers!
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