{ 2008 04 15 }

When I complain that a graduate student’s time is never valued, this is great example of what I mean.

Stanley Lemeshow is speaking tomorrow afternoon at Tulane SPH&TM/Medical School. It is wonderful opportunity; we all have read Lemeshow. His talk is “Assessing the Scale of Continuous Covariates in Logistic Regression Modeling” and YES… if given the choice between dinner out with my husband (something I do, say, twice a year?) and attending this… well, I’d tell Paul we could go to dinner once the Q&A began. (Okay, maybe it’d be alright to skip it if he offered to put out or something; I’m not totally unreasonable.) Anyway, the point is that since Dr. Lemeshow is probably in town for PAA, it makes sense to think that this speaking engagement tomorrow has been scheduled for awhile.

So WHY are doctoral students finding out about it THE DAY BEFORE!?! This makes me crazy. With our doctoral seminar from 12-1, going to Lemeshow’s talk from 4-5 completely screws my day and the rest of the week, since I’d have to put off some things, reschedule others, and get even more behind in work than usual. Had I known a week ago, I could have tried to juggle the week’s must-dos to make it all work. ARGH!

Posted by holly on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008, at 10:08 pm, and filed under Issues.

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