Week 16, Day 2 Posted April 20, 2004 at 12:00 am

With it being Dead Week, we didn’t have a regular Professional Practice recitation. This gave me some extra time to either get some work done or slack. I chose the latter.

Japanese went ahead at the regularly scheduled time. The next two days were scheduled to be presentation days—yes, presentations in Japanese. We were further scheduled to go in alphabetical order and I wasn’t to go until Thursday. Due to various shifts or others passing the buck on, I ended up going today anyway. I wasn’t prepared and I hadn’t even finalized my presentation but I sucked it up and went anyway. The result was something akin to reading a rough draft through once or twice and trying to recite it from memory to an audience. Luckily, none of my classmates were particularly good or experienced at this either so they were rather forgiving. I think I was pretty lenient with my grading of others’ presentations.