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Having a bad day so please please be nice

Please I beg you be nice because I'm having a terrible day and drove home crying. I'm hoping I would come on here for positive support considering I don't have many friends.

Long story short I had a presentation today in class and my teacher humiliated me in front of the class. Not bad enough you're already nervous. On top of that, I was having technical issues and the PowerPoint didn't look the same on the projection screen. At the end of my presentation, my teacher was asking me questions and kept grilling me making me more nervous. So literally while I'm still up there presenting she told the class that we need to be more prepared and need to do better at explaining. After I sat down feeling stupid feeling everyone's eyes on me.

Next couple of people went up and she didn't grill them or ask them anything? Then halfway again to the class " Those who were prepared thank you blah blah blah" I know she was talking about me. At the end of class asked to see me in front of the whole class and was like you know better... I told her I'm sorry I was already nervous and then having technical issues. I even answered her question that I couldn't in front of everyone and told her I know my stuff I was very nervous. Mind you people are in the room listening. I was HUMILIATED. She apologized to me and said I'm sorry if I embarrassed you...... Like really??, you know you did if you even have to say that. I cried the whole way home. I don't even want to show my face next week but I know I have to be strong and do so. I don't even want to look at her.

Please I need positive uplifting words and I'm coming to all of you for some so please be kind. And I will pay it forward when any of you need to chat or need encouraging words. Thank you for reading. P.S I go to a university
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She likely is just trying to push the content and is not seeing students as emotional beings.

She might be unable to understand, preoccupied with her own shit, etc.

I think you *were* brave. If you are going to fail, *in class* is FAR better than *at a job*.

I had a grad class in electrical engineering, and we had to make presentations. [b]Even though they [u]knew[/u] the presentation room and saw others have issues showing their presentations,[/b] MANY presenters had major tech issues.

I made simple transparencies, used a standard overhead projector, and lost no time or points to screwing around with "oh, you actually needed a different dongle to connect an X to a Y" or software interoperability issues, etc.

I'm not suggesting you do that, but having *had* a technical issue, I encourage you to check out if anything works, beforehand, AND make color copies of your screens on std blank transparencies ("slides"...but not Ektachrome...) as a lower-tech *backup*. [And make sure there's an overhead projector there.]

It's ok. And you soldiered through it.

You have already died of embarrassment; let it alone, because you can't change the past, but you CAN change how you approach the future!
Doglover44 · F
@SomeMichGuy Thank you for your kind words. Fortunately it wasn't just me. Other students were having trouble but I guess she liked to grill me.
@Doglover44 You're welcome.

RE: YOU were the one grilled
Well, you got through it. Some of these experiences are trials by fire.

Don't let it get to you. Maybe she wanted to be hard on one person to scare everyone into being on the ball. Who knows?

You [i]should[/i] document--right now while it's fresh in your mind--that it seemed unfair, in case you end up thinking your grade was affected unfairly.

But I'm guessing it's likely more impersonal.
Doglover44 · F
@SomeMichGuy again thank you so much for your kind words and the time for you to sit here and respond I truly appreciate it. It takes nothing to be kind believe me in the kind of person that remembers every kind of thing anyone has ever done for me. God bless you and I hope I don't offend you by saying that.
@Doglover44 No, it does not offend me in the least!
@Doglover44 ...and thank you for your very gracious reply.