Gave my first conferance talk!
Life has been pretty stressful last week, with a barrage of unproductive hours at research and a looming conference presentation on the weekend, I was in for a swell. The conference was on systems biology at UCLA and I was supposed to give a talk on my optimal crawling work. The way I registered for this talk was funny. Initially, Mattia thought he would give a talk at this conference but he applied to the student portal! after he knew that he messed up, he asked me to present in his place. The presentation was limited to a single slide and for 2 mn, Seems pretty short doesn't it? Not short enough to not mess up! Given my particularly poor showing at the presentation I did for the open house, I decided that I would prepare very well for this conference talk. So I started making the slide on Monday and finalized it by Wednesday, by which Mattia decided that I should present my work on the chick embryo rather than the crawling work. Given that Wednesday was the deadline to submit t