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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Let them talk

Last year, there was a conference here in Japan and I was supposed to prepare an article for presentation. The standards, however, were really strange and tough to obey. We had to prepare our full article in 1 page (A4) only. The worst thing was the abstract. The secretariat asked for an abstract with maximum 100 characters! You know, it is always difficult to have our say in a few words; this time less than 100 characters (including titles,...). I did my best to say everything in just a sentence.
Today, students of MSc (second year, M2) will present their works (as a requirement for the fulfillment of their degree). They, surprisingly, have got to do it within only 2 minutes. I asked one of the M2 students about his presentation and what he can present in his powerpoint slides within such a short time. "ETO... ETO... ETO...", he replied meaning that we can just say "Umm...Well...". There will be, however, a limited time for poster presentation on the same day (afternoon).

posted by Cyrus at 5:34 PM

3 Comments:

  • and I was complaining about my abstracts :p

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:49 AM  

  • who knows why?plz answer me.why such a restriction?why to save time?why to save money?why to save....?why to save....?we make the rules and to do them we make more and more restriction and more and more useless rules

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:28 PM  

  • Arash
    Oops. Calm dowm man.
    I agree with you. I mean, we do not need much restrictions which push us to a robotic world. I've seen many of the Japanese complaining about these restrictions, rules,... but none of them has got a reason why to make such rules or...

    By Blogger Cyrus, at 2:29 AM  

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