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2007GCMorrisGeneral Comments
The signs alongside I-75 all during Computers and Writing 2007 informed me that it was National Transportation Week. I kept on thinking that there must be a pretty metaphor in there somewhere—that the National Defense Transportation Association had planned their special week to be in the same city at the same time as our own—but the sleep deprivation from the conference itself has left that idea half formed and hanging (yet an adequate introduction in any case). There I was, driving to campus on "National Bike to Work Day"—and all for the sake of a technology conference. Again, there must be a metaphor there somewhere. A metaphor would be helpful because it feels slightly incestuous to write a review of a conference that I helped plan. Yes, I was one of those harried graduate students signing people into wireless, working registration, and making last minute changes to the schedule and program (see sleep deprivation mentioned above). I’ve always been one of those students uncomfortable grading myself. Doesn’t anybody else peer around the classroom wondering if they should give themselves an A or a B, wondering if everyone else is going with a nice solid, honest C? This feels like the same process. If it weren’t for my notes, my time at the conference itself would mostly be a blur of looking out of the McGregor doors, sitting at registration, finding out my campus ID would sign 25+ people into campus wireless all at once, and—as I did Sunday morning—turning to Michael McGinnis and saying, "I feel like we never left here after last night."
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