Ph.D. Comics has more insight than a whole department
One of the topics that came up at a “town hall” meeting between graduate students and the department faculty recently was how to increase attendance of the department seminars. There were some good insights, like “attendance at each seminar is inversely proportional to the frequency of seminars”, but really, was it that hard to miss the most compelling incentive to attend seminars? It seemed like 50 scientists just could not figure out!
Today’s Ph.D. comic summarizes:
One person spoke up and mentioned, in passing, “It always seems like more people come if you put out snacks.” The comment was mostly ignored, in favor of other speculation, like “what if you send out abstracts of the relevant papers beforehand?”
Hellooo! Feed them, they will come!
