Is this the End? (Reflection)

Almost two weeks ago I presented a Ted Talk based on my experience with cooking. I went on the first day, because then I was finished with my talk and the rest of the week of presentations I got to watch without being nervous. I went third for my day, Justin Ryan went before me and his presentation blew me away. It had awesome visuals, the story was an actual story that told a lesson, and it was delivered well. Then there was my presentation, I had gone with a simple black and white presentation because I believed that a Ted Talk was supposed to be more focused on the speaker than on the presentation slides themselves. This was not a thought that was shared with the rest of my peers, they all had well decorated slide shows, so I fell short on my PowerPoint.

As you can see from this little clipping from my feeble slide show, I tried to have lessons about with my talk. I just wanted to talk about my own experience and what happened to me. I felt that one of the first things I should have talked about was what went wrong. My biggest issues were coming from the whole reason I chose the cooking topic, my passion for baseball. I thought that the cooking would help me eat more nutritious foods to be a stronger person, but then as I worked out and talked to my trainers, they said that at this moment, I really shouldn't worry about nutrition I should just gain more mass. So more cooking? Yeah I guess so, I started cooking massive quantities of food after that. That was a fun time.

Now let's get to the presentation, my speech. I felt as though my beginning was strong, I hooked the audience by telling them about an email I sent to myself. This way I avoided the cliche approach  saying, "For my project", or "This is what I learned". It was downhill from there. Then I led into what I thought went wrong, this is coincidentally also where my presentation started to go wrong. I had lost the story that I was telling and began to ramble. I rambled my way all the way through until the end, this was probably the worst part of my talk. I was most likely incoherent for my conclusion. I don't even think my point was given to my audience. Wow I really messed up. But oh well, it's over with now. Except I don't really think that I am done with this project, I'll build on the basic skills that I learned over the past few weeks. And with that, it seems that this blog will be coming to an end, so I will...

(End with a bang, you can never escape)

(also when I found the picture above, this came up and I'm not sure why)