get better at speaking in public

...went good overall, I think.

I guess I have gotten better, but I know that I can still improve. And it’s something I will continue to work on until I am completely comfortable speaking in front of large crowds.

Well my big presentation is next Friday (the 9th)... The bad news is that the experiment I am supposed to present on isn’t going to be done until at least the following week… Grrrrr… It’s gonna be hard to make the presentation without any data… I was thinking it would be ok because I would have a lot of information… now I’ve got to BS my way through it based on theory and procedure for the experiment… Oh well… I guess I’ll just have to wait and see how it goes…

This year I’ve had to do a lot of presentation for school. And I think I am getting better… I even took one class that requires a mid-term and final presentation worth most of the class mark instead of another class that has the more standard written tests because I thought it would be more interesting… I don’t think I would have done this a few years back. I still haven’t started planning the final presentation for that class (mainly because I haven’t done the work that will be presenting on), but if that goes well I’ll probably cross this off my list…

I still get really nervous when I’m in front of a large crowd of people that I don’t know well, but I think I am better at hiding it. I have to look out over the crowd, right to the back of the room and basically pretend the room is empty… If I look at the number of people, I know I will freak out… I just need to be really well prepared (without sounding like I’m reading everything), and take lots of deep breaths…