My very last ENP Days (maybe)

It's been nearly five years since I got word that I'd been accepted into a graduate program in Paris, and nearly four since the first time I boarded a bus out of Paris with a group of neuroscientists for a retreat of the Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris. This year's retreat, held on Monday and Tuesday, was out in Normandy, but the starry-eyed Master's student from 2008 has been replaced by a harried PhD student desperately wondering how her PhD will one day come together. On the up side, for the first time ever, I actually had a pretty decent poster this year complete with real, publishable data, a welcome change. With a wandering mind distracted by my pressing need to publish and the uncertainty of my fourth-year funding, there weren't too many scientific highlights this year. Nor can I report a crazy evening of dancing into the night like last year: I was so worn out that I passed out in my hotel room within a half hour of dessert. Still, there was one highlight worth sharing in the form of our Tuesday-afternoon lunch break, so voilà:

 Not such a bad final (maybe) ENP Days. At least it certainly made for a memorable lunch.