[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Being boring; public speaking

[Kathryn]

Oh God I second that. Our professor has decided that he has wasted vast swathes of his life listening to bloody awful presentations so he's going to make us do them and hopefully there will be a new generation of academics who know what there doing (some hope)
So anyway I have to speak for 15 minutes to my entire MA course this Friday, ack, shoot me now, seriously!
Apparently (and I'm quoting from someone I saw on a chat show on this) public speaking is the number one fear of people in this country, according to surveys, death comes at number 2. Therefore at a funeral most people would prefer to be in the coffin than giving the eulogy :)

K
If an advisor says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?", I will reply "This." and kill the advisor.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: macloudt 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 10:53 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Being boring; public speaking


  --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Aberforth's Goat" 
  <Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:

  > BTW, I'm curious: is the kind of person who hangs out on this
  > kind of list typically good at acting and public speaking but
  > rather shy in direct personal conversation??
  > 
  Public speaking!? AAAKKK!!  Shoot me now!  Hate it passionately, in 
  any form.  I can still feel my palms sweating up just thinking of 
  whenever I had to make a class presentation, which all students 
  (myself included) usually turned into Nap Time, so no one but the 
  prof (hopefully anyway) was listening.  As for acting...well, just 
  call me a bad liar and leave it at that.

  Nope, I'm pretty introverted.  I'm far more comfortable in a small 
  group than a large one.  I'm one of those people who stands in the 
  corner during a party (next to the crackers and dip if possible) 
  looking and feeling like a nerk because large social gatherings leave 
  me feeling lost.  But I'll happily strike up a conversation with one 
  or two people and not feel too self-concious.  It's simply the way I 
  am. I enjoy this group so much because it feels like a small social 
  gathering, even if there are 600+ members.  Boring?  Yep, but my 
  front door is always open anyway if you're in the mood for a chat and 
  a cuppa.

  Cheers!

  Mary Ann :)


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