Grad Poster Forum!

ok, so, end of the quarter exhaustion is setting in, but I told myself I would keep up with this blog, so sorry if half assed posts appear. It will get better once break comes I promise.

anyway, so THE GRADUATE POSTER FORUM!

As always we are invited to put up cool pictures we drew while we may or may not have been drunk amongst extreme curing cancer type research posters. At least we have a lot of experience now at making scientists laugh.

We had our own little gallery space at the beginning of the poster space where we set up our work at about 9am. A bunch of us had to leave to meet up with jimmy baker but we noticed before hand that there were tags and labels for a "carlos guitarlos". We know pretty much everyone in the program and as genuine of a name as carlos guitarlos sounds we were very curious who this person could have been. So when we came back for the crowning ceremony at around 2pm there was still no carlos. This made us all wonder if they really check peoples names because nick quickly realized "Hey I could have put in a picture of my famous FetalJuice under carlos' name and people would have never noticed." I guess that is true. There's always next year nicholas. Maybe Carlos will win one of these years.

I do want to give a big thank you to the poster forum staff too. Jennifer had all of these ceramic blackbirds that represented all of the blackbirds that are poisoned by the government as pest control. A couple of them were broken for emphasis as they were supposed to have fallen from the sky. When we can back at 2 suddenly there was this woman constantly complaining that she had to be the art guard because they were worried about work getting destroyed. I thought that was an interesting occurrence that made me angry and thankful at the same time. But all in all the poster forum was a good experience.

After all the votes were tallied and the girls had lined up in the ballroom for the crowning our lovely winner was shannon with her scientific detritus portraits. Very fitting for the medical and engineering type poster forum, and as always she works incredibly hard and deserves any recognition given so... CONGRATS SHANNON!