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Okay, first presentation OUT OF THE WAY. YAY. Sadly, my poster was not awesome enough to warrant monies, but it was still nice to see somebody from the plant biology department take first place in the life sciences division. GO PLANT BIOLOGY WOO.

It had a lot of similarities to the undergraduate symposium I did in '06 (it was even in the same place), though with a few differences, the fact that it's graduate-level research not-withstanding. One was that there was a guy going around during the set-up period that would help people put up posters, which was a TON of help. Those things can be very unruly if you don't have somebody to hold one end. The second was that we had CHAIRS. OMG CHAIRS. We didn't get chairs at the undergrad symposium, and after spending 3 hours on heels, chairs are a virtual godsend. Yay chairs. <3

Either way, it's done now, and that means one less thing, thank goodness. I have a lot of things to think about after it, but I just can't think about them now. After April 9th. In the meantime, I will have a cookie. Coooooookie. <3

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OH. One thing I forgot to mention. Quite possibly the awesomest pick-me-up I could have gotten was that as I was driving to the symposium, the radio decided at that moment to start playing Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy". I started grinning from ear-to-ear. Talk about an awesome way to start things off. It's like the radio was giving me a pep talk! XD