It was ten years ago this week that I went to my first meeting, which means I've been doing this work for a decade. Wow.
I recently went to a new-to-me meeting (where I suspect I missed the chance to meet a bunch of bloggers - boo!) that was pretty interesting. Not my people, exactly, but I learned some science and had good interactions with my boss. It's weird starting over. I know tons of people at my normal meetings, but very few at this one. In a way it felt like the first few meetings I attended, except that I now know how to navigate a meeting and I know a lot more science. I understand how to pick which talks I see, which sessions I skip, how to handle a poster session, how to mingle in the hallways. Fortunately, I was able to go to meals with my boss and various friends of his, so I was never on my own in an awkward way. Yet I didn't feel like a puppy because I went to most sessions on my own.
Now I'm all jazzed up to get some data!
5 comments:
If you feel that buzzed for data it certainly was a good meeting!
Happy anniversary!! :)
-BFF
It's fun to feel envigorated after a meeting :) I felt similar after mine... although, no boss gone with me but I was there in effect as "someone to give advice and take care of others" rather than the opposite.
Maybe next time you'll get to meet up with fun bloggers?! ;)
I so totally need meetings at this point now. Getting bored by it all...
If you are heading to either Europe or Australasia coming 4 months let me know, we might meet at a meeting ;)
Nina, I don't have any plans for overseas meetings right now. We still might be able to orchestrate a meetup, however, since your big itinerary takes you not so far from me, and I might be coming to your neck of the woods later this year. That's up in the air though.
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