Our grad programs have mandatory once-a-week courses where students present to other students with a few faculty in attendance.
The goal is for students to get to practice public speaking and to share techniques/info between labs.
I attended one yesterday and was shocked to see at least four students knitting, many students glued to their phones, and others working on their computers.
Is it not considered rude to obviously ignore a speaker anymore?
The @KhouryVis annual lab retreat kicked off last night in Portland, Maine at Northeastern's Roux Institute! Some of us are still a little jet-lagged from #IEEEVIS 😅 but there's nothing quite like beautiful Maine in the fall to reset our clocks! 🍂