Boom you’re a researcher!
Today’s been a bit of a brain fart day in the halls of academia so I’ve decided to end the week commenting on my Experience of the Week… Yesterday I presented my research to date at an internal symposium. I was pretty relaxed about it up until the first person presented their work, (At 9.30am on Wednesday.) and then I had to sit through 20+ presentations before delivering my own the following day. The nerves began to build more and more after each confident presentation that I witnessed. Just leaving me to question if the work I am to present is going to be any good, let alone interesting to the audience. At the end of the first day I was asked if I had picked up any tips. All I had learned was that the aircon gets in the way if you restrain your natural speaking voice. Also I hadn’t even timed the presentation, nor had I rehearsed it. I crashed out that night and as I slept I presume the left side of my brain was getting a kicking from the right side of my brain because when I got up in the morning at seven I began…
OK, I am here!
So this is it, the first blog post but not my first blog post. I intended on installing the backup of my previous blog but figured I’d start fresh. I don’t think there was anything amazing on there and as such decided against it. I also promised myself I’d make my first post pretty promptly after setting up the blog in November but I decided against that too. “Then why post now?” You may ask. Well I am either procrastinating or simply avoiding doing any further work on my inaugural research presentation. It’s on Thursday. The presentation is perhaps my first ‘milestone’ in my post-graduate career. A career I didn’t think I’d have when I was a graduand as I was very determined to find work the minute I graduated. And I did, in fact I was still technically a graduand when I started the job. However I was also in discussions with academia about a return. Three months after starting work, in what was an excellent workplace with excellent opportunities I had resigned and returned to the academic flock. “You’re mad.” And I know I am! Which is the advantage I have. I am madder than that though, I turned…