Our meeting with the BE Communications Fellow was super last
minute. We didn’t sign up until OH the day before, at which point there weren’t
even appointments available in the afternoon of the next day (this was
worrisome as our Grant Proposal Presentation was the day after). Thankfully,
Maxine was sitting right next to us and offered to email one of the fellows to
see if he could take a meeting with us.
The next day, me and Pearl met up ready for the meeting. I
was kind of anxious because we hadn’t really practiced our presentation yet and
there were even a couple of slides missing and I honestly just didn’t know what
would happen at this meeting. But Diana invited us into her office to grab some
snacks before our BE Fellow showed up, and juice boxes have a very calming
effect.
Basically me. |
Finally, our meeting with Bill started and it was a little
bit of a whirlwind. We tried presenting for the first time together, and it went
surprisingly smoothly. He had really great feedback for us afterwards, both
regarding slide content and for our overall grant proposal. I lost my anxiety
as soon as we actually started talking to him (equipped well with my juice box).
We managed to talk for almost 45 minutes about our project, and I felt a lot
better about it afterwards. Presenting the project to someone a little removed
from the 20.109 bubble was really beneficial, and I wish we had gone sooner. I
think adding a BE Communications requirement earlier in the semester would be
super helpful for future students.
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