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user315433

9:02 PM

Turns out, the total number of admitted students attending Sunday's event is ~50.... to be split between 10 programs, of which math is one. That leaves us (me) with the audience of... here comes floor division again.

user315433

Maybe I shouldn't have requested a room of capacity ~80.

Travis J

So you have a room for 80 people and only 5-ish are attending?

Or is the room subdivided?

user315433

The room for 80, big presentation being prepared, and the audience is 5 at best.

user315433

My People Reached stat will not be improved by this weekend.

Travis J

Is this an annual event?

user315433

9:14 PM

It may become one, but it's a new thing -- which is why nobody had a good idea how many will show up.

Travis J

If you want to make a good impression and have all that extra space, then get some sort of small buffet in there!

Shog9

you have two days to hire a crew of seat-fillers and train them to laugh at your jokes.

user315433

Sure, I'll offer extra credit to my students.

Travis J

Free food > extra credit :P

user315433

Yes, but only one of two costs real money.

Travis J

9:16 PM

There is that angle. You could probably get away with spending $200 on a local catering service though to get a decent spread out.

user315433

Actually, free pizza doesn't bring all the students to mathy events, either.

user315433

We haven't tried free sushi bar, though.

Travis J

Now you're thinkin'! :D

Pizza isn't that healthy. And also, there are many people who are lactose intolerant who cannot have it.

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9:41 PM

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bjb568

10:08 PM

@Gerry Sometimes I get emails from the Math majors blackboard group about some event. I try to attend if I can. The last one I went to was some travel opportunity. When I was there there was more calories of pizza than attendee and everyone just talked about life and stuff, pretty kewl.

Just makes me wonder why so few people show up, especially when there is free pizza.

user315433

They don't pay attention to announcements.

bjb568

@Gerry You could also videotape it and see if you can make the next viral video on YouTube.

@Gerry Well, apparently so.

user315433

When I talk to them and say "it's cool you are interested in that, you know, we had this presentation about Financial Mathematics grad program a month ago"... blank stare.

user315433

Despite email, deadtree posters in color and whatnot.

user315433

A lot of undergrads decided that nothing interesting will ever show up in their email inbox.

bjb568

10:11 PM

My willingness to read deadtree posters seems to be related to the number of memes or comics on them.

user315433

Or that email is for old people.

bjb568

I wish it were for old people.

We're stuck with junk and context switching and insecurity.

user315433

Try Google Wave, the email killer.

Travis J

@JonEricson - Read your stats, definitely interesting. I was curious, do they include numbers from users suspended as a result of chat flags or suspended only from chat? Or is that a separate metric?

Jon Ericson

@TravisJ Chat's a whole nother system. None of the numbers include chat.

Travis J

10:18 PM

Okay, I figured, but just wanted to double check and didn't want to leave a noisy comment on your actual post.

user315433

10:49 PM

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user315433

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Jon Ericson

Ugh. There goes my weekend plans.