Today was the presentation day for one of my course, and the presentation itself worth 30% of the actual exam mark. Well before, talking about the presentation that we did, let’s first learn the team members. Now, I was assigned to Group G. Alongside, 3 other Aussie blokes and my friend, Adrienne. Now, stating the not-so-obvious (actually, pretty obvious), i was the only non-English speaker in the group.
Now that I have mentioned that, I was having trouble understanding the actual case study that we were presenting. The first case study was pretty obvious, but the second one, actually can stand for its own. Meaning that, you can actually do a presentation about the paper by itself, without relating the two. But then, everyone agreed in doing this. And I did send an email saying that, I would agree on anything being decided by the majority.(1st mistake).But still struggling to understand the 2nd case study, I was pretty relieved to see that the group member that was assigned to prepare the slides for this section, had finished the slides. So, I was thinking to myself, that.. "well, at least one of us understand the case study, that wouldn’t be so bad. He can at least teach me what it is about in a much, much, much simpler way.." .(2nd mistake).
But, after looking at the finalized slides, I notice that the second case study was REALLY irrelevant. It didn’t contribute to the flow of the presentation, and there were a lot of terms that needed to be define beforehand. But, knowing that nothing can be done to the slides, or even the flow of the presentation, I asked for help .(3rd mistake). and ask for the group to at least meet up earlier in the morning, and teach each other about their own part. And let everyone be familiar with the ideas, concept or methodology used in both the paper. But to my disappointment, no one arrived early for this purpose.
(just for clarification, everyone was so busy, minding their own business, and taking care of themselves, we never had the chance of meeting up, sitting down, and discuss as a group — BIGGEST MISTAKE)
So, letting fate take its course during the presentation, I presented my part, and handed it over to another team member and so the presentation went according to plan. But, during the Q&A session, I was the lucky person, being solely picked to answer this one question that was from the second case study (in case, you hadn’t noticed, I did mention earlier in this writing, that I was having troubling understanding), and I (OBVIOUSLY) couldn’t answer it. Now, remembering that "HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY", I told the lecturer (who was the one asking the question) that I was not familiar with the second case study, because the main focus of our presentation was the first paper.(4th mistake). Now, after saying that, he went and ask the other team member. In which, we all appeared to have not understood anything about the second paper. So, we were standing there, and everyone was staring at us. Probably what came through their mind at the time, was.. "why did they decide to do this topic if they have no freaking clue, what it is about". And to all this people, I am really sorry. I had done too many mistakes throughout the preparation and the actual presentation of this project, that I screwed up. Yup, trying to get this out of the system, I SCREW UP. BIG TIME..
(I hope you had fun reading this one, I had fun writing it.. OBVIOUS LIAR)
