I didn’t make it for the FSAE 2009 team. Well, I pretty much screwed up my presentation. No preparation and got nervously fucked up in front of the people. When I first heard of the need to present ourselves like sort of interview to apply for the 2009 team, I already started to get afraid. Was thinking to skip that and choose other project next year. In the end, I still went. After seeing some of the presentations other people had, I realised i should have done much more before I went in.
Out of the many people who presented, most of them have relevant experience and enthusiasm in FSAE (Formula SAE). At least they showed it and obviously have done much work prior to the presentation. As I don’t have much experience in car racing, but I do have very stron interest in it. My presentation went very short and dull. Can’t even recall what I actually said.
FSAE was the project I wanted to do since I got into this uni. However, with my personality (lazy/unmotivated) I think it’s not suitable for me but on the other hand there’s some kind of urge in me hoping I can be part of the team. Come to think of it, being in a racing team able to work on various parts of car surely attracts lots of car nuts (me included).
To make it worse, 14 people applied for the team of 12. 13 went to the presentation cause 1 of us pulled out and didn’t come to the presentation (although there’s a guy i haven’t seen in the project before poped out to apply in that day). 13-12 = 1. I’m the one who was rejected kicked out. I already expected this but still saddens me.
On a side note, I had another presentation today. It’s one of the coursework for the Communication course. At least for this one, more preparation was done although it was still not enough. As a whole, I think I did fine not just by my standard but overall in the whole session. Problem was the structure of my speech or rather the logical sequence or something like that as being taught throughout the course. You have to start from general statement followed by a specific evidence then end it with the statement again. My structuring was not so good and according to the assessor, my discussion was not specific enough. In short, I got 18… out of 30. Not very well, was hoping to get above 20.
This makes me being pessimistic about my written assignment i’ve just handed in. Because I(as well as every other student) basically convert the written piece into my presentation.
Arghhh, time to write my lab reports. There are 3 to be done. No job plus no SAE. Guess I’ll be heading back to Malaysia in the summer.
