12 hours. Crap.

[anonemouse 1]

Twelve hours from now, I will have started my thesis seminar presentation. And I still have to finish the introduction and conclusions/discussion sections. I'm up to about 42 slides, so as long as I present at a rate of about 1 slide/minute, I should be fine. Now to finish this damn thing....:faint:

[juliegeraci 7]

Lauren, you are a hard and dedicated student. Hope you get through your preso okay.

[anonemouse 1]

Well, I made it through it okay! It ran a little bit shorter than I wanted, but it wasn't bad. There was a clock in the back of the room that I kept staring at and think, "I need to slow down! I need to slow down!" Of course, that made me more stressed out, and I wound up forgetting a lot of what I was going to say. My professor didn't want the presentation slides to be "wordy", so I was basically doing it by memorization, having just a short sentence or sentence fragment on the actual slide. Not a bad method, but not the best when you are completely stressed out and nervous.

On the up side, I slept wonderfully on Friday night! I had gotten very little sleep the week before the seminar, so I was dead to the world on Friday night. I had been up until 2 AM on Friday morning, working on the presentation, and then got up and went to the campus at 7 AM to work on it some more.

I learned a very good lesson about procrastinating, though. Of course, I should have already learned it by now, as many presentations and class projects that I've had to do in the last several years.

[cindyluhu 0]

Laurend,

Congratulations on your presentation, I knew you'd do great! And now you have that one behind you.

Cindy

[juliegeraci 7]

Lauren, good job. How is it coming along for your surgery? Julie

[anonemouse 1]

Lauren, good job. How is it coming along for your surgery? Julie

Still haven't heard anything from the surgeon's office. I am probably going to email the office manager today, since it's been a while since I've heard from them.