Today I had the last 2 exposés of my life, both in French, and while I'm glad to be done with them, part of me is sort of going to miss the concept of them. "Wait, what...", my fellow exchange students are thinking, "...that wasn't a sarcastic title?" En fait, no. I actually liked the oral presentations that consititute the majority of work here at Sciences Po. And really... what's not to like? (Apart from the high expectations of professors that you will read their mind and make the exact right obscure reference that they wanted you to, the overbroad topics, the 20 minutes of questionning after the already mentaly-draining task of speaking for around 15 minutes, the extensive preparation that still gets you nowhere, the horrid American accent that emerges from nerves, and the general public humiliation of it all...)
Well, okay, maybe they aren't the world's most "fun" excercises in the traditional sense of that word, but no pain no gain, right? Or maybe I'm just a little bit more masochistic than we all thought. In any case, oral presentations in a foreign language (or in English) were an interesting challenge, and in all sincerety, I'm glad to have been pushed out of my academic comfort zone grace aux exposés.
With that said, I'm SO glad to be done. Time to CELEBRATE. Wooooohooo!!!!!!
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