school things
oh, one more thing before i go.
i got some pretty decent grades last semester. granted, i only took two classes, but still. two A's. nice.
for one of my classes, management in higher education, i had to do a group oral presentation, which i was freaked out about since most of the people in the class were second years.
anyway, on the day of the presentation, i got there somewhat early and my professor was waiting outside the classroom because the previous class wasn't out yet. so i was talking to her, telling her how nervous i was because i'm not used to doing presentations in front of a group of people. she was really nice about it and told me not to worry and that i'll do fine.
luckily for me, the two other members of my group took more time for their section than anticipated. when it was almost about time for me to do my section, the professor told me that we had five more minutes for our presentation. so i went on autopilot and basically did my section without reading straight from my notes.
one of the things i learned this semester is that when doing a presentation, it is important to not read from your notes verbatim. according to the same professor, it is essential that you keep your powerpoint slides short and precise. they are basically bulletpoints to remind you of what you are going to say. and do not read from your notes, it completely tunes out the audience.
i remember back in high school, i found a mistake in one of my history textbooks (i know, can you believe this shit?) and went up to the teacher, mr. grillo, to let him know. i thought i was going to get a "wow, good work" from him. but instead, he told me to do an oral presentation on the topic.
that's not even the worse part. on the day when i had to do the presentation -- and mind you, it was just me doing a presentation, no one in class had to do it, so it was a bit awkward, he told me to do it from memory. yeah, like i could do that. hahaha. so i ended up just reading it from my paper. in hindsight, i wished i did it by memory. but then again, he could have told me earlier.
anyway, getting back to my original point, i have to say that fear is a great motivator. i couldn't even remember what happened. it's a good thing that i went over what i was going to say numerous times beforehand and pretty much had it memorized.
four A's and one A- this year. i think next year will be very challenging, especially with ethnography (which everyone whose has taken it says is a fucking bitch).
yay!
anyone figured out the lyrics yet?
i got some pretty decent grades last semester. granted, i only took two classes, but still. two A's. nice.
for one of my classes, management in higher education, i had to do a group oral presentation, which i was freaked out about since most of the people in the class were second years.
anyway, on the day of the presentation, i got there somewhat early and my professor was waiting outside the classroom because the previous class wasn't out yet. so i was talking to her, telling her how nervous i was because i'm not used to doing presentations in front of a group of people. she was really nice about it and told me not to worry and that i'll do fine.
luckily for me, the two other members of my group took more time for their section than anticipated. when it was almost about time for me to do my section, the professor told me that we had five more minutes for our presentation. so i went on autopilot and basically did my section without reading straight from my notes.
one of the things i learned this semester is that when doing a presentation, it is important to not read from your notes verbatim. according to the same professor, it is essential that you keep your powerpoint slides short and precise. they are basically bulletpoints to remind you of what you are going to say. and do not read from your notes, it completely tunes out the audience.
i remember back in high school, i found a mistake in one of my history textbooks (i know, can you believe this shit?) and went up to the teacher, mr. grillo, to let him know. i thought i was going to get a "wow, good work" from him. but instead, he told me to do an oral presentation on the topic.
that's not even the worse part. on the day when i had to do the presentation -- and mind you, it was just me doing a presentation, no one in class had to do it, so it was a bit awkward, he told me to do it from memory. yeah, like i could do that. hahaha. so i ended up just reading it from my paper. in hindsight, i wished i did it by memory. but then again, he could have told me earlier.
anyway, getting back to my original point, i have to say that fear is a great motivator. i couldn't even remember what happened. it's a good thing that i went over what i was going to say numerous times beforehand and pretty much had it memorized.
four A's and one A- this year. i think next year will be very challenging, especially with ethnography (which everyone whose has taken it says is a fucking bitch).
yay!
anyone figured out the lyrics yet?
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