DECO1800 Week 5

"Holy Bagoly", these are the words that escaped my mouth when I learned that we were to give a presentation in our next contact session. Certainly a terrifying affair for any student, giving a presentation in front of a judgmental class of students. I spent the previous night to our presentation, memorizing lines and ques for our group and fortifying my self esteem with many motivational memes. I flicked through meme after meme, growing in confidence and recalling my lines with greater clarity determination.

The first thing to strike me as rather odd was the manner in which the tutors propelled 'feedback' towards the groups presenting prior to my group. Hateful and threatening comments were made by the tutor such as "I would have liked to see you refer to your poster a bit more". My team member Clancy squeaked in fear when we were called up next, he was to present with me. Our other 2 members Cornel and Jordan wore sickly expressions on their faces, teeth chattering and lips quivering. We marched to the front of the class like a group of death-row inmates, I turned to stare at the class and began my presentation.

What happened next was similar to one of Ashton Kutchers blackouts in his classic film The Butterfly Effect. Suddenly, I was declaring that the presentation was over, I noticed that the timer next to us had passed 3 minutes, a perfect length. I turned to look at our audience, every persons' hair was spiked and pointing back, revealing the shocked expression on their faces. I turned and looked at my team members, each sporting a cool, satisfied look, "ehh ehh excellent performance guys, you can return to your seats", our tutors croaked, obviously blown away by the killer presentation. We walked back to our seats, sporting smiles too big to fit on our faces, we had won.