Sheeple Magazine April Archive

My Practice Presentation

By Jamin Greensbury at 04/01/08 15:38

Today after school, I had to give my graduation project practice presentation. I had been dreading it because I thought that mine wouldn't be long enough (you need at least 8 minutes to pass). Turned out my fears didn't have anything to back them up. Mine was well over 8 minutes and I still needed to add more to my presentation. Stupid me forgot to introduce myself, even though the two teachers I gave my presentation to I talk to everyday. Anyways, I did pretty well.

But what bothers me is the weight these projects carry. If you fail the project, you don't pass, simple as that. You shouldn't fail the project, but there is always that unknown factor. The project requires you to write a 5 page reasearch paper and work 15 hours on a project of your choice. The two have to be somehow related, so you have to choose what you do carefully. There are certain checkpoints throughout the school year, so you really have to keep on task. Plus the higher up school officials say that this project will really help you in life. From my experience, it hasn't.

The only thing I can see helping you is the actual presentation, the one worth all the marbles. You have to get up on front of a panel of judges and show what you've done. The only thing I can see that tied to in the real world is giving presentations in the work world. At least you've had some experience doing that.