Vivan Waghela Week 14 - POAS

 POAS

^ something similar to my outfit on thursday

    It's almost over. Thursday will be my presentation and the pain of POAS is over. Will I remember what to say? Do I know what I will say? No. Not at this time.

    As far as I've seen, all of your presentations were really good. Do not think you did bad, you actually did really well. And I know I will mess up: either I will forget something or it will just be bad. Who knows.

    Hopefully I remember what to say, because if I don't I will be screwed. All of you guys who did theirs on flip grid are lucky: you cannot really forget what to say; you can have your script right in front of you or you can do it in small chunks. So much easier. And I would have done it if I got time to (I definitely did not procrastinate). Well I can't do much now.

    If you notice by now, I did not talk about language and memory, but technically I did. I was talking about me remembering what to say, and to remember something is to make a memory. So I really did write about memory. But language? Speaking is a way of expressing a language, so that part of the topic is also covered. So at the end of this blog post, I want you guys to wish me luck on my POAS presentation on Thursday. Especially on the fact that I will be wearing a full suit when its 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside. If you guys want a question to answer, here it is: During your POAS Presentation either yesterday, Monday, or on Flipgrid, did you forget something that was very important to say?

Comments

  1. Sean WangApril 11, 2022 at 6:52 PM

    Hi Vivan,

    I, for one, did not forget anything. And if I did, I would not know. When I present, the only thing I have to overcome is the nature of presenting itself. As long as I'm confident enough, I can fake my knowledge on anything well enough to present it in a semi-professional manner. Heck, I probably don't know as much as you on Bruce Lee. But if you gave me five minutes to think of something in my head, I could probably come up with a coherent presentation on his life. To me, presenting is less memorization based and more about overcoming stage fright, if you get what I mean.

    Sincerely,

    Sean Wang

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  2. Anwika PalleApril 12, 2022 at 11:03 PM

    Hey Vivan,

    I guess I will expose myself since we just received our POAS presentation scores yesterday, and it will be too late for Ms. Benedetti to change my score when she reads this at the end of the quarter. I recorded on Flipgrid, and I...had to skip my entire concluding slide before my works cited page that closed my presentation in general and tied everything together (Ms. Benedetti please do not take off any points thanks). There was just not enough time and I didn't want to risk going over 7 minutes on the Flipgrid since I had already done that once and when I tried to trim the video, it ended up deleting my entire recording. I guess my presentation already covered that aspect though, since I received points for it! Sorry for all the pointless blabbing, but I (was)...(am) really angry at Flipgrid for making me rerecord so I had to share the inconvenience that my presentation experienced due to it.

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  3. Faith QiaoApril 13, 2022 at 7:15 AM

    Vivan you did a really good job with your presentation. I know you were really nervous, but your presentation was the one that made me laugh the most. It is okay that you went over time, the extra credit would have offsetted any points that were taken off. I also have a really bad problem with memorization, especially for speeches. I had a whole speech prepared and transcribed onto nine flashcards, but every word that came out of my mouth was not something that was written on the card. I had prepared for this presentation—took it to heart that I had something to finish. I wanted to do well on it, but I didn’t. When I got my score, I can’t say that it was unfair. Next time, hopefully there wouldn’t be one, I would focus on creating better slides that way I have a better version of notes to refer too.

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  4. Sierra DellenbaughApril 13, 2022 at 6:17 PM

    Hey Vivan, your presentation was awesome! I learned a ton about Bruce Lee that I didn't know before. I knew he had anger issues in most of the movies I saw, but I definitely didn't know that it stemmed all the way from college where he started gangs; totally not what I had imagined. To answer your question, I most definitely didn't say most of the important things I wanted to say in my presentation. When I practiced over the weekend, my presentation was over 10 minutes long, while talking at lightning speed. I did manage to condense it for the presentation in class, but to my dismay I still ended up with a 10% deduction. I'm a huge art person and I would have liked to do a whole art critique on each painting I showed, but I had to limit it to one sentence each, which definitely didn't do her incredible work justice. I'm still quite upset by the unfair time restriction, as more time would have allowed for more information that could not be found on Wikipedia. I apologize; this comment ended up being a whole rant. Thanks for sharing!

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  5. Sophie Minh Thy C NguyenApril 13, 2022 at 7:36 PM

    Hi Vivan,
    I also procrastinated a bit on my presentation. For the whole time I was working on it, I was planning on doing a Flipgrid presentation in any way I could. I had this whole plan about animating some slides myself or even making a "draw my life" esque video, but I ran out of time. I didn't run out of time, but I definitely did work on it as much as I would have liked to. In order to give myself some more time and make my slides the best I could before my presentation, I decided that I would present in person. This was not fun. I had forgotten many of the points that I was going to add, which in the end, lost me a full minute and a half of planned presentation time.

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  6. Krish ParikhApril 13, 2022 at 8:09 PM

    Hi Vivan,

    Before I answer your question, I wanted to say that your presentation was one of my favorites! It was very funny, and it's a speech only you could've pulled off. Great work!

    Now, onto your question. During my presentation, I actually improvised everything without a script, and it happened to come out under 7 minutes. I think my secret was that instead of starting with a script, I started with a slide deck to organize my ideas, and the rest flowed naturally as I spoke.

    Sincerely,
    Krish

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  7. RaymondApril 13, 2022 at 9:02 PM

    Hi Vivan,
    You did great on your POAS presentation! You incorporated a lot of humor and really created a sense of interest in the audience. I think that the pace of your presentation was really good, as it didn't overwhelm with too much information too fast, and left plenty of time for the audience to laugh. No one could even imagine that you missed anything, so if you did, you did a great job presenting around it. Great job overall!
    Sincerely,
    Raymond Yu

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  8. Yi-Kuan CApril 13, 2022 at 9:30 PM

    Hey Vivan,

    Boy let me tell you. Aside from my introduction, I forgot nearly every single word on my script, so I ended up winging basically my entire presentation. Although this is probably due to the fact that I started trying to remember my script during first period of that day, I am still super frustrated that I did such a terrible job despite my pride as someone I thought as a decent speaker. While I wish I had prepared more, I am really glad that this is all done for, and all in all, I got a decent grade on the presentation so there aren't really any complaints here.

    Yi-Kuan C.

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  9. DeetaApril 13, 2022 at 10:49 PM

    Hey Vivan!
    I thought your POAS presentation was so cool as well and definitely stood out as one of my favorite presentations. I did not forget anything during my live presentation thankfully. For me personally, I grew up dancing and public speaking so I don't really have stage fright. This makes it super easy to convey information to even large groups of people. I really thankful for this skill of mine but I totally get how it would be easy to forget to say all the information you meant to under the stress of presenting. Thank you for sharing!

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