Around the First Bend

“This is the way a research paper is supposed to be presented!”

Sat through six hours of torturous presentations that appeared to go on till doomsday. The fact that all the papers presented before mine were based on quantitative research and the litany that were ANOVA and correlations and regressions and p and f and t values was way too lyrical for my much imbued mind probably was one reason that I was fretting. Professors and advisers at Research Conferences are notoriously pro-quantitative research. Even when the course is taught, we are told next to nothing about the tools for evaluating qualitative data and analysing it. I kept thinking how I persuade the strict looking panel of the validity of my own analyses.

Turns out, all my fears were unfounded.  Alhamdulillah, thanks to an aesthetically and technically sound presentation and a smoothly voiced delivery, the conference ended to public acknowledgement of the quality of my presentation.  Reminded me once again, how thankful I need to be to my parents for ensuring I studied at a good school that placed such emphasis on language and confidence building.  It was the only thing that made a difference today.