Flashes of Panic

I got email from the University’s alumni office just now, inviting me to a seminar titled “Networking for Introverts: why does it have to be so hard?”

This is not a seminar I would expect from the College, and I have to wonder if the presence of engineering programs at the University accounts for that difference. (More likely it’s simply the size difference between the two institutions.)

I also have to wonder about the potential attendance at a seminar expressly targeted at people who “avoid networking events so [we] won’t have to talk to strangers.” Isn’t that like trying to start a procrastinator’s meeting on time?