Disappointed in 74%

Posted 11 months, 4 weeks ago at 10:57 pm. 2 comments

I’ve had a variety of marks on different projects and assignments in university. I won’t go back as far as high school because then this rant would cover my complete disgust with certain teachers, my love of others and comments on situations which really at this time have nothing to add to this one.

I got a mark back today for a presentation I did in my Science Fiction English class. It was 74%. I was sad
It’s weird that I was so disappointed because I’ve been completely apathetic to marks like this before, to higher marks, to lower marks. However this one has been the first one where I was really expecting it to be higher, and I mean like 80%+ higher. I guess maybe I set myself up too much because I knew the marks and comments of other presenters and tailored my presentation to fix on what the negative comments were in theirs and what the teacher mentioned as points of improvement when I talked to him about it. So it was a bit of a surprise for me that I got 5% lower then one of them and 8% lower then the other.

The presentation was on Kino no Tabi by the way. A fantastic and beautiful anime series that I would recommend anyone who can find some spare time uses it to watch it. It doesn’t matter if it’s all in one go. There are some unifying messages and concepts, but it totally doesn’t require you to remember anything from previous episodes to appreciate, understand and like each individual one. can you tell this was maybe one of my presentation questions that I had to answer?

So anyway — I really just wanted to rant. I’m arranging a meeting to talk about this amongst some just for fun things sometime this week. I’m going to try and scrape an 80% out of this yet. I think I pretty much did the opposite of what he said not to do (”Don’t make it a show and tell”) and got hella screwed compared to those that did a “Show and Tell” =/

Show and tell is the process of showing an audience something and telling them about it and usually done in a classroom. It is an elementary school technique for teaching young children the skills of public speaking. Usually, a child will bring an item from home. They will explain to the class why they chose this item, where they got it, and other relevant information.