Sooo, I've been trying to be more lax on my school work recently because I don't feel like it's worth the stress. But, after years and years of going over and above the necessary amount of work on any assignment, I obviously have some things to learn about doing the minimal amount...
I had a presentation in my Linguistics class that included doing a PowerPoint. Apparently, three slides wasn't sufficient. I realized that mine was scarce in comparison after about two presentations.
Now, I should mention that I have a slight blushing problem. Slight as in my face turned red and I felt the heat in my cheeks even when I was loading my presentation before class began. I felt everyone's eyes on me, and I was sure my face was about 10 degrees hotter than the rest of me.
This made me realize how college presentations are very different than high school presentations. In high school, you tend to know everyone pretty well. Even if you didn't grow up with them throughout elementary and middle school, like I didn't entering my high school, you get to know everyone just from having class with them every day. At a big university, you're lucky if your class has less than 100 people in it. My particular class was small, but only because it was a Friday discussion group composed of about 30 students from the 300+ lecture. I think I had managed to talk to a total of two other people in my discussion class, however. Needless to say, I was shocked to see the faces of the other students staring back at me when I stood in front to give my presentation.
I probably looked like I had a blushing disorder, plus I ended up getting a shoddy round of applause and a B-. Not my best effort.
Moral of the story is: as you enter your college career, don't be too lax but also don't stress so much. If you're like me and feel like you've never had a break throughout all your school years, I recommend taking the time in college to really figure yourself out and decide what you want to do. Get involved in your career choice, and if you decide it's not for you, then you wouldn't have wasted any time preparing for it. I know for myself, I've never devoted large amounts of time into writing, and now that I have, I can't go a day without it. I don't know what I would do if I ended up not enjoying it, but it would be better to find that out now than in four years time.
I've gone a bit deep, there, but I hope my embarrassing story has some sort of impact on you, whether you can relate to it or whether it makes you think twice about spending a little under an hour on your next project...not that that's what I did.
Have a happy Thanksgiving and I will be posting that (lethargic) Friday following!
Alexis
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