Academic Whack-a-Mole
We've now moved into what I like to refer to as the academic whack-a-mole phase of the semester. That's when you have so many things to do that you get behind on something and spend all your time working on it, but by the time you've caught up you've fallen behind one something else, etc, etc ad nauseum.
The current mole in need of some serious whacking is a seminar I have to give next week in Chapel Hill on the fluid dynamics of copepods. I've been working on it for the better part of a month and it just doesn't seem to be coming together properly. If I do a crap job, it'll be in front of the whole department. It's one thing to stand up and teach a class for a bunch of undergraduates who don't know anything anyway, but I'm seriously stressed out about this. So much so that I didn't sleep last night, which means I can't work productively today, so that puts me another day behind!
posted by MarkCi @ 3:36 PM
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There exists a whole group full of people who would sit and listen to such a topic? Wow.
Some of them are more junior graduate students and have no choice.
But yeah we have lots of fun ones, like "Investigation of Cyanoviral Influence and Potential Presence of
Antiviral Compounds in Marine Sponges" and "Marine Black Shales and Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events" and "The Sulfate Problem: Anaerobic Sulfide Oxidation in Continental Margin
Sediments" just to name a few of the more popular talks.
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