No, I am not reading LJ when I should be doing homework

[brigdh]

I resent being asked to give presentations. It seems to have become the new fad in my classes; I've had to give one for nearly every class I've been in this year, while I only ever had to a few times before. And each time, they say: this is to get you used to public speaking! Get you over your nervousness! You need to learn how to give speeches!

Except see, I have never had an ounce of stage fright. Public speaking? Ch, whatever. I would give dramatic renditions of Shakespearean monologues while standing on a table in a crowded restaurant if I had cause to.

It's all just a conspiracy to force me to do the research two weeks before I was planning to write the paper. They are invalidating my procrastination lifestyle!

Comments

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

I have stage fright, and giving presentations never cured me of it. It has taught me to eat lightly beforehand.

I suspect it's also a conspiracy to make grading easier on the teachers, so they don't have to go through so many papers. That, and the oppression of the procrastination lifestyle. ;)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it doesn't seem like a very effective way to help people with the problem. Wouldn't getting graded on your public speaking make it even worse?

We should have a march, support the procrastination lifestyle! I'll organize it... uh, tomorrow. Really.

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

It is worse! Fears become validated! Er, actually, it's so-so. On a good day it's just uncomfortable, on a bad day my neuroses come back.

We should form a group! Get anti-procrastination laws passed! We're an oppressed majority! I'll get started later. After I get done avoiding all the stuff I said I'd do, then actually do the stuff I was supposed to have done, then do some stuff so I can avoid doing other stuff.

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

In the last couple of classes where I had to give presentations, doing a presentation for a paper that was due sometime after the presentation gave the teacher time to give us feedback on the paper and thus allowed us to possibly improve our argument/statistics/whatever and thereby improve our overall score. ;)

But I agree, I think most are doing it to be lazy.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that would be useful. My classes usually don't do it that way though. Either the papers are due right after the presenation, or they don't give you feedback.

Stupid lazy teachers. I want to be lazy!