e_clare

so... if one were writing an abstract for a talk about one's thesis...one might have some questions.

1) does "1-page limit" mean "we really want your abstract to take up the whole page"? there's no suggested word count anywhere; the sample abstract is half the page, including 4 lines of title

2) how detailed can an abstract be? should one drop in one or two key quotes? (is that allowed?) how much detail should i give?

3) title? what title?

4) do any of one's friends want to read said abstract and comment on its (in)comprehensibility? any one?

somehow, one did not forsee this abstract/senior symposium business being such a big deal. perhaps the advisor's efforts to get the advisee to apy attention earlier in the month would have gone better had said advisor been on campus longer than 3 days.

One might have also spent the bonus hour before Thursday night shift started trolling LJ for thesis-topic icons instead of working on said abstract. Icon-hunting was easier.