Down to the Last Minute
Ah, Ph.D. comics, how true it all is.
I remember my father once telling me about a time in his lab, in which the lab members were sitting around talking, disappointed that they didn’t have anything to submit to a conference. Suddenly, one of them had a great idea! He checked the time: 12 hours to go until the submissions deadline! All the lab members got together and cranked out some preliminary data. Someone rushed out, sat down, plugged out a poster abstract based on the preliminary data, and emailed it to the conference with 30 minutes left! And it was accepted!
