6 UAT
Oral Communication
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Prof: Tony Eng / Spring 2022
Feb 14, 2024
FREEEEEEEEEEE
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Prof: Tony Eng / Spring 2022
Feb 14, 2024
Lowkey lightwork
A bunch of oral stuff
Kinda a stud (good at oral)
Learn how to speak before taking this class
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Prof: Tony Eng / Spring 2022
Jun 8, 2022
There will almost never be need for me to present my highly specialized work to basically anyone who is not an expert unless I have very specific career choices which most people at MIT (in EECS) don't decide on. And even so, I probably won't have to present at a high-school level. Additionally, if you're EE, you have to dumb it down to kindergarten level because apparently nobody knows Physics after freshman spring and most of the people in course 6 are CS-focused (obviously including your recitation instructors). Basically, I think the class doesn't really meet its objective of simulating our future career experiences, such as weekly progress updates or project presentations that will happen in the work environment. I learned how to make a good presentation though.
80% - giving presentations 15% - giving/receiving feedback 5% - playing stupid games I learned how to make a good presentation and how to evaluate a presentation. I have NOT, however, learned how to give a good presentation. I can evaluate a delivery, but I received zero tools on how to make my delivery better. We would play 2-minute games or do some "exercises" that are supposed to help us, but they don't help. Breathing in a circle 5× loudly and slowly will make me extremely dizzy and not any less nervous. In fact, I felt more nervous because my mamma didn't raise no quitter and I wasn't gonna loose to these mouth-breathers in my breathing circle but BOY was I gasping for air.
The professor doesn't have realistic standards. He wants students to not learn presentations by heart but to come up with stuff on the go and adapt real-time, but nobody can do that unless they have a natural talent for public speaking or they trained really hard. Playing an association game for 2 mins at 9 am in the morning will NOT make me able to come up with stuff on the go. He is a good speaker, but I basically couldn't take any of his advice (i.e. anything he taught) related to delivery because it was so unrealistic.
Make sure to pick a recitation where the instructors have good ratings (because some of them can be super mean and give bad grades because they feel like it).
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