NSAC Presenter experience
As promised I thought I'd take a minute to talk about the 'celebrations and frustrations' of being a NSAC presenter.
I was really not excited at all to be a presenter. I was nominated and voted by my peers. The process to getting to 2nd place was HARD. Going into the process was kind of slow, and didn't see to be too bad. But once we started to memorize our script things got interesting. I only talked for a total of three-ish minutes, but dang! Big words and numbers are hard to set in stone into your head.
The night before the presentation all of the presenters took the night to practice. I was failing miserably at two sections of my script. It was horrible, and I was so nervous for the next day. I thought I was going to have to use my note cards during the presentation.
So once Saturday morning rolled around at about 5am. I finally decided I couldn't lay in bed pretending to sleep anymore so I got up. Went through my lines and nailed them. I was SO grateful that during practice I was finally doing something right!
Once the presentation rolled around our team was doing amazing. We were really working well together and things sounded good. So when it was time to talk in front of the judges we nailed our presentation. It was fantastic, we couldn't have asked for it to have gone any better!
So we ended up with 2nd place and I have never been so proud of something academically! I am SO glad I was a presenter. Even if it meant that I had to give up a lot of my life for a few weeks. It was totally worth it!
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