Our oral presentation focussed on recommendations for NUS to better prepare undergraduates for careers in the banking and consulting industries. Jasper, Weiying, Glenn and I called ourselves ‘Team Invictus‘ – inspired by the recent Nelson Mandela movie starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
Since our presentation theme was ‘3’, it is only apt that I structure my reflection into 3 parts.
The Content: This first part refers to the actual work that went in generation our content – interviews and surveys with friends/students who had interned in banks as well as full timers, the head of the career centre and Director of CELC. Almost everything here went as per plan except I would have liked to interview around 35 instead of the 20 we ended up with. It would have further strengthened our claims. Having said that, ours was probably a good effort given it is THAT time in the semester. (I have my final year project presentation tomorrow and another day after!)
Preparation: We did put in a lot of effort into preparation, particularly tying up loose ends. This involved rushing to the engineering dean’s office to find Eunice, Industrial attachment in-charge for data, making a video in a quest to keep our audience interested and attentive.
Of course, the next part was preparing the presentation. Jasper and Glenn did a great job with the slides and Weiying did a great job collating the information. We also had fun thinking of a different beginning to our presentation, and hence started with ‘Shosholoza’ – our team’s anthem taken from the movie.
The Presentation: The only thing that I felt was a blip was that our background was not seen at all. It was a light picture and went absent once projected. I had corrected this in the title slide but omitted to do so in the pre presentation chaos.
Aside from that, I had lots of fun presenting as well as watching us present. Weiying had a lovely person touch, Glenn had a deep convincing style and Jasper and I had a great time with our good cop – bad cop routine! I couldn’t have asked for more from my team. I thought they did great!
The Q&A session was very engaging. We had a lot of good questions that further brought out discussions we’d had in the past amongst ourselves as well as dug out details from our work in the background. All in all, it was a great experience.
It is the first of my last 3 presentations as an undergraduate student and my teammates and classmates made sure it would be one that I would remember for a very long time.
And one last thing, I can’t help but mention our fun photo shoot with Brad in our class room followed by the one with all classmates in a packed S16 lift..
A Learning a Day 