Timeline for Should I ask for an exam deferral due to my fiance's first conference and first time leaving the country?
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| Oct 15, 2015 at 0:14 | comment | added | PLL | @PatriciaShanahan: I know a couple of colleagues whose spouses routinely come to conferences with them, and who make it a plus socially rather than a minus (renting an apartment, being able to invite colleauges over and work/party in the evenings…). So it’s not necessarily a bad idea. I’d say rather that it will take the right kind of characters, and some thought/effort, to make it work — for many people it wouldn’t, but for some it’s fine. | |
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| Oct 14, 2015 at 8:32 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @AnonymousPhysicist: Bringing one's spouse to a conference is not as unusual as you make it sound. Many CS conferences include a "social event" on one evening and explicitly offer to buy additional tickets for attendees whose family members have come to the conference location. This does, however, not mean that these additional people attend the actual conference, as they have not registered as participants and paid the entrance fee, it only means that they spend their days on their own and are with their researcher-spouse in the evening. | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 7:58 | answer | added | fedja | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Oct 14, 2015 at 7:27 | answer | added | Anton | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 5:52 | comment | added | user21268 | Surely is there a compromise? Usually conferences are a couple of days and exams are a couple of hours. Why not go before or after the exam? | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 5:35 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | The best that can happen for your fiance's academic and career prospects is that he ends up spending all the non-scheduled time, including evenings, with other conference participants talking about the conference topic. Would you be able to either participate in the conference or occupy yourself independently during it? If not, it is a bad idea to go regardless of the exam. | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 4:32 | comment | added | Dan Romik | I don't get this question. Apparently you love your fiance enough to want to spend the rest of your life with him. But you are not sure if you love him enough to risk mildly annoying your professor by asking him a question? | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 4:27 | answer | added | Pete L. Clark | timeline score: 15 | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 3:58 | answer | added | Count Iblis | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 3:46 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | Bringing your spouse to a conference is like bringing your spouse to a meeting with your boss. Don't. | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 2:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/654123711130402816 | ||
| Oct 14, 2015 at 1:17 | answer | added | AMR | timeline score: 22 | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 0:53 | comment | added | Mark Joshi | well it depends on how seriously your institution takes exams, the request would be regarded as bizarre in many places and would therefore be unwise. | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 23:57 | comment | added | tonysdg | You might be asked to take the exam in advance - I've known professors that prefer that strategy too. | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 23:53 | answer | added | jakebeal | timeline score: 37 | |
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 23:49 | history | asked | user42539 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |