{"id":10761,"date":"2017-02-10T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=10761"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:53:09","slug":"stepping-up-to-the-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2017\/02\/10\/stepping-up-to-the-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping up to the Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Drew Burrier<\/h3>\n

When I originally conceived of this post 2 months ago I thought it would be a reflection of my experiences presenting my research at a major science conference for the first time.<\/p>\n

It has since morphed into something else.<\/p>\n

The third week of December I joined 20,000 of my colleagues in<\/p>\n

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AGU was held at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

the Earth Sciences at the 2016 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. I was one of around 8,000 students who arrived in San Francisco to present one of the 15,000 posters that would be displayed over the course of the week. It\u2019s hard to describe the emotions of a graduate student attending their first conference. Its how I imagine a promising pitcher feels when they walk into a big league locker room after having been called up from the minors. They have left the relative comfort of the minor leagues, and are now face to face with their idols, the people they have admired in their profession from afar, never thinking it possible that they could one day compete on that level. They must ask themselves: \u201cam I good enough to be here?\u201d<\/p>\n

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