Mine was from 10:15am to 10:30am. I presented faster than I have practiced, probably because I'm now more used to my slides. Which also meant one bad news, more time for the researchers to ask me questions. 3 of them asked me today,one of them commented while the other two asked me questions related to my presentation.
Sad to say, I'm the type that gets nervous easily especially when being asked things I'm not really sure of. Today's question was quite easy but I had a hard time trying to understand where the researcher is trying to get to. I actually knew the answer to the question asked but I was too nervous to recall what I had done. So I gave a very lame answer that I would think about what the sensei asked. I felt so dumb.
Though it was over, my body and face was still hot, heart was still pumping too quickly, and my shoulder was still tensed up, like in a battle mode. Or embarrass mode. Or more likely, in a get-ready-for-a-challenge mode. It took me about 20mins after presentation to calm down, longer than the presentation itself. 10mins of presentation went smoothly, but the 5mins of Q&A was an electric shock of what could be.
I finally took the bus at 1:35pm, after grabbing a cheap but not-so-good lunch at the university's cafeteria, take a look at my seniors poster presentation and sneaked away from my lectures. I'm gonna get "lectured" after this for not staying until 3:30pm, the actual time poster presentation is suppose to end, but I was too tired to think.
Truth is, I'm getting sick of materials science. Not good in it unless being forced to. But today I was too tired to take effort to understand other people's research, or pretend I'm interested. So I jilted, back to the hotel, had a good soak at the bathtub and wondering if I could fly home to Toyohashi. The typhoon hits Toyohashi today, making it's way up to Hokkaido. Most probably we won't be able to fly tomorrow.
Sigh, stuck at a place in the middle of nowhere...
歌如人生
5 years ago
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