Presentation!

[fluffybecca]

Agh, fuck, presentation today. I've done the slides but they're more a guideline - the idea was that I was going to do most of it verbally and now oh God, totally panicking. I don't want to do this. Meep! And I feel really comfortable around my group, but... aaaah! I'm going to so run out of things to say - or I'll just start babbling because

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[lauralaitaine]

*hugs* You'll be fine, hon; it may not be a fun way to spend 8 minutes of your life, but it won't be as bad as you think. I had to give a presentation for 20 minutes two weeks ago and I was so nervous. I hate public speaking and I didn't think I could talk for 20 minutes but I was surprised at how quickly it went. I checked the clock when I thought I'd been talking for 5 minutes (worried I was going to fast and was not going to have enough to say) and I was actually 10 minutes through already! 8 minutes really isn't that long - you'll be surprised.

My slides started out REALLY heavy with writing - they looked like lecture slides not presentation slides - and I was all, ok, everything is right there on the slide, I'll be fine. And my supervisor was all, well, you can just *say* that, thin it down. So I thinned it down. A lot. And I was SO worried I was going to forget all the stuff I'd taken out, so I wrote a little of sheet of notes of things to say about each slide. And barely used them at all. I was fine once I started talking.

Good luck, hon.

[fluffybecca]

Thanks hun! I didn't have time to reply at the time I read this (five minutes before I ran out the door) but it really helped calm my nerves! The presentation actually went okay - the only thing I did wrong is that I gave most of my presentation to the computer screen instead of to my tutor group!! But everyone was nervous and no one's was brilliant - so it was all good in the end :)

Thanks! And oooh that reminds me, I do want a postcard from your holiday - must go fill that in now :D hehe!

[lauralaitaine]

I think I did a bit of that too. I liked explaining my graphs because I could look at the screen..... :)

Glad it went ok.

And thanks of the address - all being well (and Canarian post is sometimes dodgy!) you will get a postcard :)