Posters

Just when you thought you were done with making pretty, colored, posters....

In elementary school, you have the colored paper, crayons, hand-drawn pictures.

In high school, you upgrade to likable color schemes, still on the colored paper, maybe some graphs or pictures printed off from the internet, bold, beautiful hand written titles in colored block letters.

In undergrad, you think you're done. It's a tease, you join a club, they have a bake sale, and out come the colored paper and crayons, but this time you don't care so much, so you draw half-assed pictures and block letters.

In graduate school (i.e. now for me), you really, REALLY think you're done. You even steer clear of clubs, just in case... but now there's a new secret club, it's called a conference, and they've got poster sessions, and you think that it'd be a good idea to share with the "world" what you've been working on for months... and out come the colored paper and crayons... not. I wish.

Nope, graduate-style posters for a conference are a whole other beast. They are computer-generated, beautiful, large sheets of paper. They still have pictures, and graphs (they just take forever to place in the right spot, oh how I miss scissors and glue!). They still have color schemes (but you can't really quite tell what color they will actually be once printed). New additions: math formulas, references, flow charts, and many, many more hours invested.

Any guesses as to what I've been up to this week in the office? Here's a hint: I'm entering a _____ for computational math day next week!