“Prepare to Cringe: 50 Epic School Presentation Fails That Will Make You Rethink Classroom Chaos!”
I freeze and look over at the prof. She says don’t worry about it, it happens. If I remember right I got an A or B. The girl ended up being a friend of some friends and I would see her around campus and at parties. Never worked up the nerve to talk to her or apologize.
It’s me. I did this. I cringe about it to this day, nearly 20 years later.
I was 16 and in high school. My high school was going to do a spring talent show. I wanted to be in the talent show and show off my talents. The problem was, my actual talents are not ones that I could show off at a talent show. So I decided to try singing.
I have never sung in my life. I have never had voice lessons.
I was in my prime weeb stage and chose an anime song to sing. I didn’t know any actual Japanese, I had just memorized the lyrics from hearing the song so many times.
Luckily I didn’t make it past auditions, but several people saw an overweight girl in a Sailor Moon shirt try to sing ‘Butterfly’ despite having never done any singing or voice training ever in her life.
Nearly 20 years later, and remembering it keeps me awake at night.
When i was a ninth grade student, we had to present the poems we made in english class.
most people wrote about embracing their culture, loving their friends, etc.
and then there was that one kid who recited a “lifestyle poem” which compared fat people to beached whales and said that people who don’t work out will die before they’re 20.
This was a Spanish class in college, and I think the assignment was something like “talk about your best friend” or some such, just kind of a softball assignment so you could practice using the vocabulary. And one classmate’s friend was evidently a friend with benefits.
Compared to some other stories in here this is minor, but it was a group project for one of my literature classes. There were five people in this group. According to the rubric for this assignment, everyone was supposed to have equal speaking parts.
One of the members in this group would just *not stop talking.* Half of their presentation was just her talking (and she went on about each of her slides for like 5 minutes). The rest of her group members had like 1 or 2 slides each, and she had IIRC 5 or 6. She would also interject into the other group member’s parts to add her opinions.
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