Laptop malfunction Professor falls asleep Student bobs head fighting sleep Blatant typo Cell phone goes off Speaker is getting over a cold Doesn't go into PowerPoint presentation mode Laser pointer doesn't work Introducing the speaker takes too long Entire slide filled with text Use of Powerpoint with blue background You have no idea what's going on Speaker wastes 5 min in outline Repeated use of "um..." Person next to you on his/her laptop "We're looking into that" Speaker bashes previous work "The data CLEARLY shows" Uses latest buzz words in the field "That's an interesting question" Bitter postdoc asks question "Beyond the scope of this work" "Manuscript in preparation" References advisor (past, present) Laptop malfunction Professor falls asleep Student bobs head fighting sleep Blatant typo Cell phone goes off Speaker is getting over a cold Doesn't go into PowerPoint presentation mode Laser pointer doesn't work Introducing the speaker takes too long Entire slide filled with text Use of Powerpoint with blue background You have no idea what's going on Speaker wastes 5 min in outline Repeated use of "um..." Person next to you on his/her laptop "We're looking into that" Speaker bashes previous work "The data CLEARLY shows" Uses latest buzz words in the field "That's an interesting question" Bitter postdoc asks question "Beyond the scope of this work" "Manuscript in preparation" References advisor (past, present)
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
Laptop malfunction
Professor falls asleep
Student bobs head fighting sleep
Blatant typo
Cell phone goes off
Speaker is getting over a cold
Doesn't go into PowerPoint presentation mode
Laser pointer doesn't work
Introducing the speaker takes too long
Entire slide filled with text
Use of Powerpoint with blue background
You have no idea what's going on
Speaker wastes 5 min in outline
Repeated use of "um..."
Person next to you on his/her laptop
"We're looking into that"
Speaker bashes previous work
"The data CLEARLY shows"
Uses latest buzz words in the field
"That's an interesting question"
Bitter postdoc asks question
"Beyond the scope of this work"
"Manuscript in preparation"
References advisor (past, present)