<p>How do you fare? Class presentations? In front of large audience in theater?</p>
<p>I hate public speaking. I hate when the teachers call on me in class too. And i really hate in the beginning of the year when the teachers make you play the name game and theres people you should know theirs names but you forget. I try to think that nobody really cares about what im saying anyway. Someone else said to pretend theres a dot on the wall and look at it. I hate having to memorize things but if its written, then i just read it and dont look at the class. I hate it and cant sleep the night before i get so nervous.</p>
<p>Debate team ftw!
Join it.</p>
<p>I hate it. I’m just like you, kollegekid. I hate that stuff too.</p>
<p>I hate speaking in class! I feel like my voice is shaky but everyone says I’m a natural speaking because I’m articulate and it looks like I have confidence.</p>
<p>Yeah right!</p>
<p>depends on what it’s for. In general I don’t like it, I always feel I suck. My classmates on the other hand, say that my presentations make theirs look like crap. I’ve also gotten many positive comments for my public speaking.</p>
<p>I love it. Love class presentations, speaking to a big audience, performing in a stage and all of that. And I’ve been told I’m pretty good at it.
Actually my classmates chose me to be the person who delivers a speech in our graduation.</p>
<p>I forced myself into being comfortable with it. I used to have massive anxiety issues trying to speak (I swear my voice would shake, and my hands, and the volume of my voice would vary sinusoidally with time).</p>
<p>Nowadays I have discovered a love for improv. I never have notecards for speeches and presentations; they make me more anxious. I just write an outline for what I’m going to say and leave it at my desk when I go up to say something.</p>
<p>Good thing about being a nerd: your vocabulary and diction is coherent even on-the-fly.</p>
<p>I’m currently in a public speaking course, but public speaking doesn’t scare me. Like … I’m just natural on stage. I feel comfortable there.</p>
<p>Over the summer, I gave a speech in front of 250+ girls that I really didn’t know at all on a subject that I wasn’t super familiar with. (It was Girls State and I was running for Superintendent of Education.) We weren’t allowed to have notes, so it was basically ‘off the cuff’. Not a problem. (I don’t know if the actual speech was good… but I personally was okay. lol)</p>
<p>I have to speak in front of my school on a fairly regular basis, granted, my school is only 150 students large. (Well… k4-12 is 500.) We have assembly every day, so I have to “publicly speak” very often. Seniors tend to have a lot of announcements. lol</p>
<p>The largest speech that I think I have ever given is in front of my entire school… it was 500+ people and I was presenting the award for the Yearbook Dedication. No big.</p>
<p>And I currently have an A in my public speaking class… I do believe that I’m the only one, too.</p>
<p>I try to make it funny and interesting. It’s hard when you’re a really self-conscious person though.</p>
<p>I’m comfortable with Powerpoint presentations but definitely not having to memorize something. That just ends in humiliation.</p>
<p>I love the attention; I feel like a dictator that has complete control over the people listening to me.</p>
<p>That’s why I’m on Mock Trial.</p>
<p>And I’m not like a dictator, but being on the Mock Trial team (and doing a lot of public speaking in the process) has shown me why Hitler probably loved his job a lot.</p>
<p>Hmm… I’m not as good at improv speaking, but not horrible.</p>
<p>I’m in Speech, One-Act, FCCLA, and love public speaking. I’ve spoken in front of 1000?ish people before. :)</p>
<p>I like it. Until I hear how whiny my voice sounds.</p>
<p>I’m supposedly alright at it. Though, when I’m up there, I could swear that my voice is shaking. I don’t understand why I shake though. I’m perfectly fine with being up there.</p>