Rather than give u all my routine "end of semester rant" of how swamped with work i was, i decided to actually get the work done and then comment. I had to do 3 group presentations within 2 days and term papers and tests gallore. It was nutty but then again i've come to expect that at hofstra. I was able to bang out the work in a timely fashion but the presentations always make me nuts.. i usually stress out all week long when i have to do a presentation so with 3 scheduled in 1 week i thought i'd be a bigger wreck then ground zero (i still feel bad about making references to that but its the only wreck that came to mind). But i was actually pretty calm leading up to my presentations. My first presentation was in Advertising. i had to present slides on Gender Ads. It seems like a piece of cake and i was rather confident until i got up there. When reading my part off the slides i was very jittery and started to shake like michael j fox in a tub of cold water (wow im just an asshole today). But i gutted my through it. The next class i had to present on Dell computers. This class required us NOT to read from the slides but instead present confidently only using index cards as a reference. Now again i was nervous as hell but i actually performed ok. The teacher actually commented saying that i seemed confident and was very effective in walking up and down the aisles..the truth was i had so much nervous energy that i could have ran for a mile and if it werent for the discomfort i felt in my feet from my 1989 pair of hush puppies, i just might have. But anywya i muscled through that 1 too. The last presentation would be the one i dreaded the most. My group consisted of slackers..good kids but slackers. I had to be the powerpoint man as well as the group leader and the guy who revised all the papers.This required a lot of work and alone time in the computer lab..not on purpose alone time, my group just likes to set a day and time and not show up..but whatever. When it came time to present..we thought we'd be ok. The first girl to present whose smooth as silk (which is why i loveeeeee her), then she passed it off to this kid named danny. Danny is a funny guy and a good guy but turns out an awful speaker. He starts the presentation then he abbuptly stops excuses himself and walks out the door! I thought he hada go to the bathroom or something. AN overactive bladder can strike at any time and as we all know whenugotta go, u gotta go. It turns out it was nerves and he needed a few MINUTES to recoup. During the first few seconds we all just stand there in shock.Not to mention, if my nerves werent already bouncing like a basketball in the bronx, believe me they are now. This kid had 1 slide but he was supposed to go on for atleast 3 mins discussing it. So the next girl went, and then Danny was able to come back and do his part. SO when it became my turn i was just thinking get through it- atleast u wont be as bad as Dan the jitter man. But the truth is it calmed me down- seeing that i wouldnt be the worst presenter i was able to read my slides with little to no problems. I still think the project itself is the worst thing i ever put my name on but i feel good about what i was able to accomplish. Now if u were smart u would have seen that this paragraph was going nowhere by the second sentance and u would have skipped it but u didnt, instead u were forced to hear my endeering story of overcoming my fears and triumphing like a true champion over an unlikely opponent, my own damn nerves... i feel like i won a foot race against a bunch of quadrapolegics at the special olympics. Im pathetic.
I'm still not out of the woods yet. I have finals and a term paper still due next week. I'm stilll struggling(although failing is more like it) in finance and i hope to God i am able to pull out a decent grade...like a C.
OK i dont have much else to say but i found something i wrote a few weeks ago in the comp lab and i thought i should share it:
I really question how much my degree will be worth once i graduate. Now i dont mean to go off on a rant here but it seems as if hofstra has turned into a school for the mentally defecient. I'm sitting in the comp lab next to a few kids that look like they just got off the short bus after a long shift at burger king. Now i know im not the sharpest knife in the drawer but these kids in my graduating class must be plastic spoons or something. It just seems that people are getting progresively stupider.I dont know if its drugs, tv, or rap music but something has turned those minds into the dumpster. I think teachers are somewhat to blame. These college professors sit in front of the class wearing their docker pants and buttoned down shirts resite the same lesson plan that they've been doing since 1983. Guess what? Regan isnt president, USSR disbanded and the spice girls have broken up. Getwith it..oh and nice pants asshole. It wouldnt hurt if these teachers put more thought and more creativity to their lessons. Power point slides and lectures are fine but they can be less entertaining than a upn sitcom. Games and incentives help aid the education process. Obviously im not punking out all these teachers. i've learned a lotfrom teachers who know exactly what they are doing. Obviously not everyone has been challenged mentally instead it looks like they are mentally challenged. Now im not saying i've found an actecdote for education b/c its not going to work for everyone. Kids are going to be rude, disruptive and uncooperative- thats life. But i think the results will be better.
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