Seminar
BINGO
You’re the only one in your lab that bothered to show upSpeaker forgets to thank collaboratorsCell phone goes offReferences Advisor (past or present)Work ties in to Cancer/HIV or War on Terror
Laptop malfunctionEntire slide filled with equationsSpeaker sucks up to host professorHost Professor falls asleepBitter Post-doc asks question
“The data clearly shows…”“…et al.”FREE
Speaker runs out of time
“Beyond the scope of this work”Master’s student bobs head fighting sleep
“Future work will…”Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outlineThere’s a Grad Student wearing same clothes as yesterdayYou’ve no idea what’s going onResults conveniently show improvement
“That’s an interesting question”Speaker bashes previous workUse of Powerpoint template with blue backgroundBlatant typoRepeated use of “um…”
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