Categories: phd
Tags: conference, essays, PhD
Date: 09 January 2007 20:39:43
Tomorrow at stupid o'clock I'm leaving Glasgow for a few days, firstly to attend a meeting tomorrow afternoon and then to take part in a conference/workshop-type-thing on Friday and Saturday, which thankfully and rather handily are both taking place in the same OtherCity as each other. The meeting is the second one (of two) to do with organising a student-led conference joint between us and OtherCity University which will take place in April (and at which I am speaking, eek). The OtherCity students came up to us last year and were very keen and scary, whereas the three of us from Glasgow are all a bit, well, not. If last time is anything to go by, I shall temporarily be very enthused about both the conference and my PhD (and will also stuff my face at someone else's expense), before normal levels of apathy are resumed.
The conference/workshop-type-thing is being put on by a special interests group of the UK Association of academics in the area wot I study. It should be really interesting, but seems a bit intense, and although I'm a delegate and not a speaker, because it is more a workshop-type-thing I think we're all expected to contribute something intelligent in discussion, and "network" in the breaks, and all that sort of thing. I'll be spending the day in between tomorrow's meeting and the workshop starting reading the articles we're meant to have read beforehand (I won't ask you to guess how much I've already managed to read, because I know you all know the answer already, sigh), as well as marking a few more essays (am slightly behind schedule, but not too drastically. Yet). A good thing though is that on Friday night I am meeting up with a SoF friend I've not seen for ages for a meal and a catch-up. Am I very bad to admit that's what I'm most looking forward to?