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Final checklist

  

Now that your posters are printed and your presentations are perfected, do one last check to make sure you packed all the essentials. There aren’t too many! This is Orlando, and you can buy everything from toothbrushes to socks within walking distance of the convention center. But there are a few things you can’t buy, so don’t leave without these:

1. ARVO express badge

2. Your printed poster (it’s risky to print at the meeting!) OR your talk on your laptop, and bring them on a usb drive as well, just in case.

3. Driver’s license and/or passport. You can’t get into the meeting without it. They check it every single time you come into the convention center.

4. Your itinerary. Don’t let all that work scheduling and working out logistics go to waste – hang on to that for the next five days!

5. Smart phone. This is a definite necessity at ARVO. How else can you meet up with colleagues, double check a poster number, and text your friends that they were just referenced in a talk? And don’t forget to load a few recent pictures of your kids. Even when you are buried in science, you’ll want to sneak a glimpse of their little faces every now and then.

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