A vital presentation.

(PREMIS: I was supposed to post this on Tuesday night, but got wrapped up in packing!)

Well, this is it. Tomorrow morning (5:32am) I’m getting on a plane that will take me to headquarters and so I can present on what I’ve been doing for the past three months. I wasn’t even nervous until today. And I don’t even know if it’s nerves or just eagerness to get everything wrapped up and packed up to make my way home.

I also figured out that I’m awful at practicing presentations. I’ve been stressing out all day over EXACTLY what I want to say during my presentation, because we’re only given a very strict 5 minutes to talk about what we felt were the most important contributions to the company this summer. That is NOT enough time. Especially when I tend to go on tangents in different directions and it takes me forever to try to get back to my main point. That is something that I definitely need to work on, and will hopefully get practice on for the future! I wish there was some way to automatically have better presenting skills. I know there’s classes on it, but I’ve never heard about how successful those really are..

Anyway, I need to finish packing and getting everything taken care of before I leave Oregon for a few days. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch some sleep on the plane back to the East Coast!

Wish me luck! (I need it!)

Ps. When preparing for a presentation, never write out and entire speech and try to memorize it. Everytime I try to think about what I wrote, I always get messed up and forget what to say. So don’t do that :)