my respect has criteria and you're missing them
A little rant about presentations, projects, plates, and submissions, directed at the general uni population.
You are supposed to be the first defender of your work, because it is yours. You never say "oh I just threw this together, ha, ha," and expect me go "ha, ha" along with you. You never say "I didn't know what to report on, so here goes nothing," even if you don't know what to report on. You don't crack jokes about cracking jokes to make up for a lack of material. You just don't preemptively sabotage yourself, ever.
I'm not saying you can submit shit and then say "if you don't understand my vision, you hate education" or force quality where there is none, but you should never ever ever show your audience- your teacher, your classmates, the lecture hall, the classroom, the panel- that you don't believe in your work.
You aren't being funny or ironic or clever. You aren't beating the system. You aren't revolutionary. You are just trying to coast along with what you think is humor. What you are, however, is showing me how little you think your effort is worth, and how little I should respect your work.
You are supposed to be the first defender of your work, because it is yours. You never say "oh I just threw this together, ha, ha," and expect me go "ha, ha" along with you. You never say "I didn't know what to report on, so here goes nothing," even if you don't know what to report on. You don't crack jokes about cracking jokes to make up for a lack of material. You just don't preemptively sabotage yourself, ever.
I'm not saying you can submit shit and then say "if you don't understand my vision, you hate education" or force quality where there is none, but you should never ever ever show your audience- your teacher, your classmates, the lecture hall, the classroom, the panel- that you don't believe in your work.
You aren't being funny or ironic or clever. You aren't beating the system. You aren't revolutionary. You are just trying to coast along with what you think is humor. What you are, however, is showing me how little you think your effort is worth, and how little I should respect your work.