First-time impressions are critical, so obtaining feedback on the product and the entire experience at this stage is critical.
Editor's note: MiSciNet editor Robin Arnette gives her first-person and first-time impressions of this year's annual meeting of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).
Seeing it for the first time, my impression is that at times it is "choreographed" in the negative sense that theater folk often use the word: posey, unspontaneous, contrived.
Different Times: Find a group of people willing to re-read a work they originally read when it was first published, or that was otherwise era-defining for them, alongside students reading it for the first time, to share impressions and perspectives.
As I watched the Youth Summit participants wrap-up their sessions what was most striking to hear from the numerous young Chinese delegates who were visiting America for the first time, were their impressions and stories.
Susic, not for the first time, gave the impression of a coach who lost his plot, if he ever had one.
When the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster visited these basement stacks for the first time two years ago, the impression that came over her immediately, partly because the collection seemed at the same time so monumental and so cloistered, was "this Citizen Kane, Xanadu feeling," she said in a recent telephone interview from Paris, where she lives and works part of the year.
Think about meeting someone for the first time: what would impression would you get if they seemed to be making an effort to keep their mouth closed instead of breaking into a full smile?
She had taken me along with her to the polling station every time she got to vote, but that first time made the biggest impression on me.
Stepping into any company for the first time gives an immediate impression of this attitude and the Higher Purpose of the organization.
We have shown for the first time that the distinct impression of black colour in dahlia is based on the accumulation of huge amounts of anthocyanins.
