Postcards from Maine
I don't have my card reader, but I figured I'd use my cellphone camera to give you all a quick "postcard" from Maine.
This conference is turning out to be a lot of fun (we were referring to it as "summer camp for nerds"), with some excellent science talks and awesome people. I've managed to meet and talk with most of the people I wanted to meet with, and have gotten to know a significant number of others as well. So the science stuff is good, but the non-science stuff is awesome as well:
... the university hosting the conference is within walking distance of a pretty reasonable beach...
... I went kayaking on the river yesterday...
... and I ended up organizing both an ultimate game on Tuesday and am helping pull together a party for tonight. (If you're thinking "what, Jenny? Organize a party?" you are reading my mind. But it's kind of fun to get profs and students together like this, so I let myself get talked into it. We'll see how it goes :-)
Anyway, it's been a lot of fun. Two more science talks after dinner tonight (lobster!) followed by the last poster session and our late-night party, and then tomorrow morning it's on a bus back to Boston so I can head home. I'll be back with another sketch on Sunday :-)
This conference is turning out to be a lot of fun (we were referring to it as "summer camp for nerds"), with some excellent science talks and awesome people. I've managed to meet and talk with most of the people I wanted to meet with, and have gotten to know a significant number of others as well. So the science stuff is good, but the non-science stuff is awesome as well:
... the university hosting the conference is within walking distance of a pretty reasonable beach...
... I went kayaking on the river yesterday...
... and I ended up organizing both an ultimate game on Tuesday and am helping pull together a party for tonight. (If you're thinking "what, Jenny? Organize a party?" you are reading my mind. But it's kind of fun to get profs and students together like this, so I let myself get talked into it. We'll see how it goes :-)
Anyway, it's been a lot of fun. Two more science talks after dinner tonight (lobster!) followed by the last poster session and our late-night party, and then tomorrow morning it's on a bus back to Boston so I can head home. I'll be back with another sketch on Sunday :-)