First symposium, sounds fun?
Welcome back. Since you decided to come back here, great! I believe your fond of confessions, and I seem to enjoy confessing. The last time you visited, you read about my first week at uni and how excited I was (and am!) with the topic just opening eyes like a newborn baby in the world of research. But now, let’s go on a day trip, to Southampton (yay) for a symposium! (umm) For those of us who aren’t familiar with what a symposium is, it is a meeting or a conference were people of the same discipline come together and discuss their work. Now mind you, these people are R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.E.R.S which means they have not just written the paper, but have been at a point in their life where they’ve dreamt, breathed and lived thinking only about their work, with all of its how and what and whys. So, basically, they are individuals who are well learnt in their fields and are brave enough to not just present it to other intelligent, critical and analytical people in the roo...