Presentation Tips

If you ever have to give a 40+ minute presentation about a paper you don’t adequately understand, the following tips may help:

• Copy every major idea verbatim into your notes and read that to your audience.

• Ask your professor to explain the things you didn’t understand whenever possible.

• Waste time by copying every example from the paper onto the board and explaining them in detail.

• Have a partner and alternate talking about topics. The one not speaking can read ahead in the paper or notes to prepare for the next topic.

I suppose you could play dumb to stretch the second one out. I think that was the longest hour and a half of my life, or close to it. Landin can’t write to save his life and can bite my shiny metal ass.