Part of graduate school includes a Friday afternoon seminar, affectinately known as “colloquium.” I think most schools put them on Friday afternooons at 4 pm. We were supposed to go. I know plenty of people who didn’t. I didn’t. They couldn’t require that you go–just suggest that you attend. These seminars are the most boring in the world, unless a graduate student was giving one. These poor visiting professors had very little clue on how to present data so that everyone stayed awake. It didn’t help that these seminars are held in a lecture hall in the dark. Here’s something that would have kept us busy though. I might have attended more seminars…well, maybe not.