Student Research Symposium

Two Friday's ago students in my department took part in our annual student's research symposium. Symposium is just a fancy way to describe a bunch of grad students standing around a room next to 3 foot by 4 foot posters of our research while faculty and other interested parties walk around and ask us to talk about our work. From the faculty's perspective, it's a good way for the students to get practice designing and presenting research posters which will be helpful for big future international conferences. From the students' perspective, it's little more than drain on time that could be spent in the lab, but on the plus side it goes along with free pizza so I'd call it a draw. Anyways, here's a pic of me next to my poster.