I had the worst presentation ever in last night's Innovation Teams (i-Teams) class. I was nervous and couldn't articulate my thoughts clearly at the presentation. This was a far cry from a presentation on digital encryption that I presented earlier that day. Being familiar with encryption technology, I didn't even prepare for that earlier presentation and I breezed through the presentation by effectively explaining digital security to my audience.

I am still utterly disappointed with poor presentation performance last night - this has not happened since college. So what happened? In hindsight, I wasn't familiar with the powerpoint slides that I was presenting. My team prepared the slides while I presented them. I was totally out-of-sync with some of the animations on the slides. But what really made me nervous was the presentation of a subject that I don't know very well. With a high-profile audience making up of faculty members, VCs, PhD students, and other MIT students, all whom have a good understanding of technology, I was afraid that I didn't have the technical fluency to convey our team's ideas and technology effectively. It was an embarrassing moment for me. But this is no major setback as long as I learn from mistakes.

9/27/2005 8:59:54 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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