Everyone has those things that makes them unhappy. For some people, it's nails on a chalkboard or taking the SAT. For me, it's waking up because of this weird stuff known as "responsibilities," remembering that I'm going to be 20 and thus old in less than a year, and hating on the oxford comma when all it wants to do is be a friend. BUT MOST OF ALL, it's listening to my own voice. So for this assignment, I managed to turn listening into a 5 minute speech into an hour long endeavor as I could only digest my own voice moments at a time. I was drained by the end. But the worst is over... My preparation for this speech was simply to practice the speech again and again and again. It was based off of the most interesting aspects of my essay, so I was already intimately familiar with the content. Plus, with the slides giving visual cues in moments of need, I never struggled with what I was trying to say and when. However, I typically practiced sitting dow...
Fall 2017 | CAS 137H | Penn State University