Cell phone goes off Speaker wastes 5 min in outline Speaker bashes previous work "Manuscript in preparation" "We're looking into that" Professor falls asleep "That's an interesting question" Laser pointer doesn't work Entire slide filled with text Bitter postdoc asks question Student bobs head fighting sleep "The data CLEARLY shows" Person next to you on his/her laptop Speaker is getting over a cold You have no idea what's going on "Beyond the scope of this work" Use of Powerpoint with blue background Doesn't go into PowerPoint presentation mode Repeated use of "um..." Laptop malfunction Uses latest buzz words in the field Introducing the speaker takes too long Blatant typo References advisor (past, present) Cell phone goes off Speaker wastes 5 min in outline Speaker bashes previous work "Manuscript in preparation" "We're looking into that" Professor falls asleep "That's an interesting question" Laser pointer doesn't work Entire slide filled with text Bitter postdoc asks question Student bobs head fighting sleep "The data CLEARLY shows" Person next to you on his/her laptop Speaker is getting over a cold You have no idea what's going on "Beyond the scope of this work" Use of Powerpoint with blue background Doesn't go into PowerPoint presentation mode Repeated use of "um..." Laptop malfunction Uses latest buzz words in the field Introducing the speaker takes too long Blatant typo 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.
Cell phone goes off
Speaker wastes 5 min in outline
Speaker bashes previous work
"Manuscript in preparation"
"We're looking into that"
Professor falls asleep
"That's an interesting question"
Laser pointer doesn't work
Entire slide filled with text
Bitter postdoc asks question
Student bobs head fighting sleep
"The data CLEARLY shows"
Person next to you on his/her laptop
Speaker is getting over a cold
You have no idea what's going on
"Beyond the scope of this work"
Use of Powerpoint with blue background
Doesn't go into PowerPoint presentation mode
Repeated use of "um..."
Laptop malfunction
Uses latest buzz words in the field
Introducing the speaker takes too long
Blatant typo
References advisor (past, present)