Seminar, Seminar…
Ok - so I had my seminar today. I hate wearing formals, but since the rules dictate that you have to talk looking like a suit, had to go wearing a full sleeve shirt, trousers and (well, not me) a tie!
So, I’m sitting in this hall with 30 odd people, no fans and all the windows closed and curtained to cut the light. Why so? For the LCD projector. No point if you can see only glaring sunlight 
But as you can imagine, such a room does get stuffy. And with no air circulation and formal clothes…..God I hated it.
But this was not the best part. We have two teachers for our seminar. An internal and an exrternal. Both are teachers from our department. Our internal has some personal problems. Of course, the four of us scheduled to speak today have no idea about this. We go , we wait and then are told by the external that if the internal is absent, the seminar is a no-go. Now, ours are not the only seminars. My fellow students have their seminars too. The session ended early today - instead of the 13 sceduled, only 9 could speak (the 4 non-speakers being us). Now, the rest of the days are also filled. They will try to “accomodate” us on a stop-gap basis. This basically means that from tomorrow to saturday, my seminar can come up at any time on any date. Cheery thought right? The worst part - I have to wear formals!!
Well, here’s hoping for the best
