Epilogue – Citizen of a Strange Land – RTC News

Friends,

Happy New Year – and welcome back ‘on the blog’!

It honestly does not feel like it’s ‘only’ a year (actually its less) since I started these musings under the headline of Committee Confessions. My goal with the series was to give an unfiltered insight into the workings of the European Committee in the year leading up the 2017 conference. A couple of months have passed and the series deserves an epilogue.

What exactly happens after a conference? Does the committee really sleep for 3 months – and then wake up for abstract review? And on that note; are you considering submitting an abstract for this year’s conference?

And while we honestly would not mind sleeping for a couple of months, that is not the case. Right after the closing party (Sunday morning), the evaluations begin – and last for the better part of the day. How we get through this things with so much energy is still beyond me – but we actually cover a LOT of ground; so we know which areas we…

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