Tuesday, April 19 2011.
Each day in class, one student gives a speech or presentation on a topic of his choosing for 20 to 30 minutes, and then takes Q&A afterwards from the other students and the teacher.
When I did mine last week, I spoke of the beauty and vitality of the Twin Cities and tried to convince everyone to move there. There was some interest at first, until everyone found out there are no mountains in Minnesota. Winter didn't deter them, but it seems that flat landscape is not that much of a draw. Oh well, I tried.
Today's presentation was much more academic. The speaker is a professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. She spoke on economic policies of the Canadian government when she was at the United Nations a few years ago. It was very good, but it felt like watching Meet the Press.
You should have impressed them with a speech on Information Technology or Architecture. I'm sure they would have been asleep in 5 minutes. hehe.
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