Spring Student Symposium: an alliteration!

Today was the Fourth Annual Spring Student Symposium. Seeing as it's the fourth, I guess it started my freshman year, which explains why I didn't really know what it was until this year, and I only know what it is now because several of my friends presented today. So, what is it, you ask? Well, it's a day where students present their work -either their theses (for seniors, mainly) or class projects. There are talks and there are also posters (the poster section resembled a science fair). So, I went to several talks to support my presenting friends. It was SO interesting! I kinda wish I'd gone before, but oh well. You see, when you ask people what their thesis is about, they'll give you a really short, somewhat generalized version of their thesis. In the presentations, they had about 15 minutes to talk about it, and I realized that their theses were SO MUCH MORE than what they said (which makes sense. I mean, a thesis is what, 50-100 pages? And one or two semesters of work (not including those who did research during the summer or while abroad) A two-sentence explanation/over-view obviously can't do it justice). So at first I went really only to support people, but I found their presentations all really interesting (some that were in econ or otherwise out of my field went a little over my head when it got to graphs and numbers and everything, but I got the general gist of the research and understood the conclusions). So yeah, it was all really impressive.

On another note, I saw another great aspect of the kindle. Because of it's nature, it's really great if you like to read on a cardio machine. You see, if you're trying to ellipticize or something while reading, normally you need to either continually hold the book (no fun and often difficult) or you have to come up with some creative and still problematic solution (I've seen people keep the book open by putting a scrunchie/rubber band around the book then around the monitor to hold it steady. But when you have to change the page? No fun). With a Kindle, all these problems are solved. It's flat, so it can stay on the little ledge on the machine perfectly fine without rubber bands, and you press a button to turn the page, so the page-turning issue is gone. You see?!?! Now, if I could read on an elliptical, I'd be set....(I can't because I try to essentially sprint all the time so it'd be too bumpy to read and I'd inevitable slow down as I tried to really read the book)