Day 2!
Today's been pretty good. A lot of the talks this morning were kind of uh. Boring, for me, because they went riiiiiight over the top of my head (for the record, I know nothing about economics, finance, music theory, or Japanese politics. If you assume I do, I will not understand what the fuck you're talking about. The entirety of what I got from one talk is that in Japan most people have savings accounts at the post office. This does not take twenty minutes to explain - and didn't. But that's what I understood). But the afternoon was really quite interesting! There was quite a bit on the Fukushima disaster, and student activism, which I didn't know much about, but could understand!
Still, the upside is I'm no longer really worried about my presentation skills, because I know I'm not that bad. I notice what I hate about lectures, presentations, etc., and then do my best to not do that. Apparently this isn't normal. Maybe it's because my parents were in teaching for a looong time, and to people who you had to talk to like normal people. You hear a whooooole lot of bitching at the dinner table, aha. (Another thing I hate: jargon! Particularly in a place like this, where the point of similarity is 'you did a thing about Japan', not 'you're in x field'.) I guess I'm advantaged in that I knew many people wouldn't know a thing about video games, so I had to plan accordingly. Yay niche topics?
Anyway, looking forward to tomorrow! Am... kind of done? I mean, I'm done with the prep itself, now I just have to make the powerpoint. That's easy, not so worried about it, it'll just be key points. Graphs. Couple of pictures.
Still, the upside is I'm no longer really worried about my presentation skills, because I know I'm not that bad. I notice what I hate about lectures, presentations, etc., and then do my best to not do that. Apparently this isn't normal. Maybe it's because my parents were in teaching for a looong time, and to people who you had to talk to like normal people. You hear a whooooole lot of bitching at the dinner table, aha. (Another thing I hate: jargon! Particularly in a place like this, where the point of similarity is 'you did a thing about Japan', not 'you're in x field'.) I guess I'm advantaged in that I knew many people wouldn't know a thing about video games, so I had to plan accordingly. Yay niche topics?
Anyway, looking forward to tomorrow! Am... kind of done? I mean, I'm done with the prep itself, now I just have to make the powerpoint. That's easy, not so worried about it, it'll just be key points. Graphs. Couple of pictures.