hgksfjhs i have the first meeting for my fellowship cohort today and we have each recorded a ten minute “podcast” discussing a seminal paper from our labs and are supposed to listen to each podcast and then discuss it for five minutes
and for the past month and a half of knowing about this i’ve just been like “yeah, ok, a silly activity, clearly not designed for the people who’ve already been in their field of research for a while, but sure, i’ll suffer thru it for money, maybe it’ll even be interesting”
except that i just finally counted how many students there are and mathed it out and i will be in this meeting for AT LEAST FOUR HOURS
FOUR
HOURS
IT STARTS AT 7PM
WE ARE MEANT TO SPEND IT LISTENING THROUGH EACH PERSON’S RECORDING AND THEN DISCUSSING IT
and that’s if there are no technical difficulties! not only does it require successful audio file playback– fifteen separate instances of successful audio playback– but the majority of the other students will be skyping in from hong kong
so there will ONLY
be technical difficulties
it will be a one-technical difficulty-per-minute
skype call meeting
with hong kong
lasting AT LEAST
AT LEAST
FOUR
HOURS
must a sport be entertaining to watch? 