Same kinda happens in industry, too.
Intern: 12 shitty slides. No appendix. Mumbles through the entire pres.
Jr/Associate: 47 immaculate slides, full appendix, 30 minutes to present, runs short on time, skips half of them and the audience fell asleep 20 minutes ago.
Senior: 10 slides, good enough but not pretty; too busy being technical for pretty slides. Serves the dessert first because that’s what we’re fuckin’ here for, the meat and potatos are there afterwards but we probably won’t have time for it because of Q&A. 30 appendix slides and ready for any question including “when is the heat death of the universe?”
Tech lead/director: 100 slides, 2 or 3 at the front called executive summary, agenda, recommendations; 2 more slides to back it up and introduce the team/rest of the presenters, and 95 other slides ready to go for whatever, spliced together from like 30 other slide decks they have for every occasion.
CTO: I don’t have slides. I have a spreadsheet; but I need you all to tell me the numbers. Here we go.
To be fair, the meme shows her ( Kim Yeji of South Korea) from a tense angle, unlike the one from her original viral pic
Also, afaik, they both won silver and she broke the Olympic record before her compatriot Oh Ye Jin broke THAT record to take the gold.
Basically, they’re super cool in each their way, he’s just older and prefers regular glasses over the actually pretty standard for the sport headgear she sports.
Bonus info: that cute plush elephant she has hanging from her belt? That belongs to her 5yo daughter back in South Korea.
I highly recommend this The Athletic piece about her.
One last bit of trivia: the author shares a name with a New Girl character and it’s not Coach 😛
My very esteemed advisor admitted to me that he would often just make the ppt during the flight to a convention. He also admitted most of his time at the convention was hitting pubs with the boys from his grad school he knew eons ago.
While it’s admirable he knew his stuff well enough to pull it off, hangover and all, he was also kind of an ass so it’s a bit of a push.
Usually the talks are just an advertisement for the paper. The real value of in-person conferences is meeting your peers and talking about your field in less-formal settings i.e. during the dinner and breaks.
btw if you’re a student, see if there are any student organizations to join, especially if they do workshops or research tracks at a conference, it’s a great way to build a network.
People keep saying that this guy had no kit, but I’m pretty sure you can’t buy that pistol over the counter, even in America.
Nah you totally can, they’re PCP target pistols. My local sporting goods store has several. By no means cheap, and these are doubtlessly customized as much as the rules allow, but in many (most?) states they’re not even considered a firearm.
PCP target pistols
Call me a nervous ninny, but target shooting while on Angel Dust sounds SUPER risky 😛
They are, either (iirc) 4.5mm (for womens 25m and mixed 10m) or 5.7mm (for mens 25m rapid). I’m pretty sure he’s competing in 25m rapid, which has much more restrictive rules about kit than 10m or womens 25m.
(EDIT: He was not, this was the 10m mixed team where he and his partner took silver. I had forgotten that 25m rapid uses five round .22LR target pistols and not 5-shot PCP)
If this were a D&D meme, I’d much prefer being at the latter table.
