It was my turn to present my project today.
Up until about the second I walked into the classroom I didn't feel nervous about it at all.
I had been through workshop, after all.
But I got into the classroom, and up there to present and I was extremely nervous about it. Maybe it was the vulnerability of standing up there in front of everyone and reading my poetry -- reading a bit of my soul, in a sense...
But once I got to reading my own poems, I felt calm. It was strange, but looking up at the words on the screen and realizing "Well, this isn't so bad," had a calming affect on me.
I almost laughed at how nervous I had been before hand.
Did anyone else have an experience much like this for the presentations?
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ReplyDeleteYeah, I kind of ran into a similar problem. I was all cool and smooth with my slick presentation in my pocket, but when I got up there I realized that I had completely forgotten everything I intended to say. The fact that the presentations for my class got pushed back half a week because of the blackout didn't help, and my grade definitely suffered for it.
ReplyDeleteIt was something of a snowball effect for me, actually. I got up there, went cold with awful revelation, and stammered like a schizophrenic for about five or six minutes. I guess the fact that I was running on four or five hours of sleep that day may have explained some of that, though...
Also, I run a writing club on campus, which involves a lot of talking to people, at the front of a class room, so it was particularly embarrassing for me.
I personally was a bit nervous but then i thought to myself, "you people don't know my life!" which helped a lot. In a sense i thought of my audience as empty chairs which i have no problem talking and relating to. I got so comfortable that i actually went over my time and didn't even get to read my second poem which i think i would have personally enjoyed. But no you are not alone in the nervous jitters. It happens to the most established of public speakers, and we are just little babies. These things get less intense as we do them more i suppose.
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