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I am having a presentation this Thursday and I am completely prepared for it! More than that, i was prepared with the content last week! That is an all time record. This does not end the story. I have a project report due on December and I am working on it now. When I was back in India, the earliest I have done a task was a day before the deadline. I am getting organized and even though it is not anywhere near to what others over here are, it does scares me. I am scared that I am mutating. So, what is it that scares me?? To answer this question we should go back in time, say 1 year back, or anytime when I was in India. Those were the days when I used to say/brag that the basic reason what motivates me to study further is my laziness. And the explanation goes somewhat like this, in brief: “I was lucky throughout my life. I never worked hard to reach this level. I still don’t; I am probably the laziest guy in the whole group and still I am not doing bad. Hence I am dreaming o...

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I hate it when people are over confident. Especially, when they work with me as a team for a presentation which has 50% weight-age in the final grades. We had a presentation yesterday which got screwed up, completely. There were four of us in our team and the time alloted was 25-30 minutes. The plan was to present for 6-8 minutes by each of us and I spent the whole day yesterday planning how to bring down my 9 minute presentation to 6 minutes. Before the presentation I suggested that we take a trial run and one among us said ‘No’. She said she does not want to do the trial and she is sure that she wont take more than 5 minutes, as her content was introducing the subject to the class, and she’ll make it right in stage. She was the first one to present. Guess what, she took around 13 minutes to complete her presentation (completed coz she was prompted) and it ruined everything. The second person got only 6 minutes to present her part, (we planned to give her 8 minutes)....