I just did a presentation on my research topic "Genetic Programming for Technical Analysis in Financial Markets" to a bunch of information systems students in under 10 mins and man it was torture. First of all, doing a 10 mins presentation on what genetic programming is to a bunch of computing scientists is a hard ask. Secondly, there was no place to put all my notes coz of the uncoordinated design of where the presentation was held so out went the plan on what I was supposed to say and in came the John Cleese improvisation of a BBC special. What I said apparently did not matter, I could of talked about a 1960's adventure of the occult because all that did matter was eye contact, walking around why you talk and finishing on time. Last of all when my time was up, and the first 10 minutes that went by actually felt like 2, this jerk kept ringing the bell for roughly 4 seconds while I was answering someones question. I couldn't resist telling him, "yeah I get the point".

*sigh*