Thursday, January 26, 2012

Very annoyed!

So POPL ran a student presentation session. This is much like an
elevator pitch session, these are normally good, this one was ran as a
competition and included a prize.

The catch? You were restricted to 12 slides and 20 seconds per slide,
a total of 4 minutes. A time limit is not normally a problem, but the
rest is just too restrictive. It gets worse you may not use prose or
billeted lists, just pictures.

This means using 12 pictures that are relevant, which is difficult.
While all this is bad it's not the worst part.

I fucking missed out on dinner. By the time the qualifying rounds were
over all the food at the reception had been eaten!! POPL! You owe me
a dinner!!

I'm tired of this patronizing attitude to student's effort! "hey you
student! Jump through this hoop and maybe you'll get a pat on the
head!". Seriously, is a small bag of pretezels and a ballpoint pen
adiquite compensation for this effort and missing out on dinner!?!

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