Presentation day at ASU

On Monday March 4th,  I was at ASU Main Campus in Tempe for my poster presentation. Registration is supposed to begin at 7:15 am. I left my house at 6:30 and get there by 7:06 and I have to look for parking. Fortunately for me I found a place where they will let me park for five dollars the whole which i thought was great compared to eight dollars in some places around the campus. After that, I looked for the place called Memorial Union on the campus where the conference will be taking place. After a long walk, I finally found the place. When I got there, there were a lot of people already waiting in line to register. I did the same thing, find the appropriate line and then line up. At the registration, a badge was given to me along with bag containing the schedule of day, information about where i will put my poster for presentation and also some paperwork and fill out and sign by the end of day. After the registration, I went to the big hall where we will be present the poster. Inside the hall, there was breakfast composed of fresh fruit, bagels, juice and coffee on table and everybody was helping themselves. First, I looked for my presentation board number and put up mu poster. After that, I went grab some fresh fruit, some juice and bagels and then enjoy a nice and healthy breakfast. Then after, I was walking around meeting people and looking at others posters to see what kind of research they have going on and they new discoveries in Sciences. There was six of us from Phoenix College to attend the conference. We met there, helped each other set up the poster and then just hanging around waiting for the first talk of the day. At 9, we had the first talk which was about convincing the undergraduate to go for a PhD. It was presented by a teacher from ASU who shared his own experience of how he ended up going to graduate school. Two other teachers also shared their experience on the same topic. After the talk, everybody went back to his/her poster waiting for a judge to come so that you can present him the poster and answer his/her questions. I was waiting and after awhile a judge came to me asking me to tell him about my poster. I was anxious at first but i took a deep breath and started to present him my poster. He was really interested in the research and he even gave me ideas on the second part of my project which consists of sequencing the DNA of the bacteria and then compared them. he gave a me website where I can easily find the sequences of most of my bacteria and then a program to build a phylogenetic tree with the sequences. I was very excited! I believe this was the best experience I ever received in college and I am very grateful to everybody that help me accomplish this.

Here is the picture where we did the conference: Memorial Union