I am "voluntarily" going to a lecture this afternoon. Normally I hate anything which involves me sitting for an hour and hearing someone talk but the new Head of Biochemistry is giving his inaugral lecture so I thought I would go along for some fun.

Does anyone else hate listening to people talk for an hour as much as I do?

I just hate people

RELEVANT talks are good, but they're few and far between. Conferences good in that respect - you finally meet people you can identify with and have chats about stuff that no-one else cares about. But then the conference ends and once again you're the only person in the country who has 'that particular problem' and there's no-one to talk to...

a lot of the ones i go to go over my head. a lot of speakers tend to forget to explain the background to what he or she is doing. i like my layman's intros :)

i hate giving them!!! I am due to give one in a couple weeks....help!