Three Minute Thesis Competition

I may have mentioned in a previous post that the department competition for the the 3MT was about two weeks ago now.  Well I and another guy represented the Foreign Languages department at the college level.  There are four colleges at my university, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Education, and the College of Nursing.  So today was the Three Minute Thesis competition at the college level to see who would be the representative for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University level of the competition.  There were 18 people presenting, and there were some really awesome presentations.  My goal was to do the best that I could.  I had been working on this for awhile and I had been practicing in front of my professor, boyfriend, and basically anyone who would listen.  I even practiced while I was doing my hair and make-up some mornings.  But I knew that if I got up there and gave it my best shot I at least would be proud of myself for making it this far.  And I did, I got up there and presented in front of faculty and students.  I was pretty nervous, I started shaking when I put on my eyeliner, its a miracle I got it on straight, and I didn't stop shaking until the last presentation was over.  After it was over I figured I had a pretty good shot of being in the top three, I felt pretty confident.  I knew I was loud enough, I was under the time limit and I didn't have any major mess ups during my presentation.  I had done exactly what I set out to do.  And then they announced the results...I won!!!  I was so excited, still am actually!  I don't win a lot of things, even though I can be horribly competitive sometimes, and it was just really nice that all my hard work had paid off.  And when I say there were some good presentations, I'm not being just being nice, there really were some interesting presentations and I can say that I learned some cool stuff today.  Its fun to see how diverse the College of Arts and Sciences is and there were presentations on everything from music to chemistry.  I'm really excited to be representing the College of Arts and Sciences in the final level of the competition.  But trust me I'm not going to stop working on my presentation.  I think I changed around the sentence order  right before I got up to present today, that's how OCD I'm being about this presentation.  So Research Day here I come! Gonna make my department proud, because trust me my advisor has been working just as hard on this as I have.  I personally wouldn't want to proof read my first draft of this research paper.  But then again I'm beginning to think she might be a little bit of a saint.  So good luck and best wishes, and if your spring break is this next week, have fun!