On Monday, I presented at a workshop. I got beat up the room, down the room, and then back across it again. It was a brutal experience. To some degree, it was *needlessly* brutal, and there were some people who really seemed to just get off on kicking the grad student's ass. That's OK. It builds character. But I really did get some good feedback. The next day, a professor came up to me, said he thought my work was "provocative" and that I handled myself well. So there you go.
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I don't know. I'm glad there was constructive stuff, but I think it's poor form to brutalize a grad student. It doesn't make for better scientists or academicians. It just scares people away.