i'm in newport, rhode island for an organic chemistry workshop. so far pretty good. here's a few random things.
• why does someone in boston need a hummer? there is limited parking and what on earth are you going to do with that massive thing in a city? get a moped.
• a hostel can be a nice place to stay. the lady that runs the one here was nice and picked me up from the bus stop and gave a full walking tour of the town.
• it is nice to meet someone before you actually get to a big meeting. while on the bus from boston to here i met a guy from the netherlands who was going to the same conference. he also was cheap like me and was staying at the hostel ($25-$30 / night) instead of the hotel where the conference is at ($199 / night). so now i don't feel so lame at the meeting because i know at least one person that is nice and doesn't mind talking to me.
• don't try to cram everything you have ever done in research into one 40 min presentation. just have one main topic!
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so i assume that one of the presenters was guilty of putting all of his/her great stuff out all at once?
everything going ok out there? i didn't get a phone call from you last night ( i was sad ) and I still need your return flight info!
i did call last night... well at least it was late afternoon for me! i went out to the nearby goat island to watch sunset and took some nice pictures & wrote postcards. then i was going to go to bed but ended up walking along the cost with the netherlands guy. the netherlands sounds like a giant boulder, co. hahaha except more meat eaters and less wild animals.
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