The most embarrassing thing I'm willing to admit

October 30, 2022.

 

Commonly, the most embarrassing moments we live occur in our childhood, but the anecdote I am going to tell now happened this year. I remember that I woke up that day without knowing that I would live one of the most embarrassing moments of my life, the day before 

 

I was busy editing the PPT that my group and I would use to present a scientific paper on nanocapsules. Fortunately, that day 10 groups were going to present and we were the sixth group, the people who finished presenting could leave, even so, we had to present for almost 50 people that day. I remember that I managed to memorize my part of the exhibit before leaving my home, I met with my group for the first time that afternoon; 2 hours before it was our turn to exhibit, we didn't have time to meet before, I remember that when it was time to rehearse, I realized that I forgot the notebook where I had written my part of the exhibit, everything started to go wrong from that moment. 

 

I think everyone's biggest fear was being a victim of the professor's questions and I was a potential prey because my part of the presentation was the shortest. With the help of what I memorized I rewrote my part, I took 30 minutes on that, we decided to watch the other groups expose. We were able to rehearse 3 times that day and I think the only problem was me, the rest handled their topics much better. 

 

It was the moment, I thought nothing could push me anymore, but as I walked to the front I realized my love interest was there, I think she was going to exhibit after us. Our exposition was almost the same as our third rehearsal, when it was my turn, I forgot everything 5 seconds after starting, luckily I had my text with me, I remember I read every 10 seconds because I forgot what I had to say, it was a constantly interrupted exposition. And the cherry on the cake, I was the one chosen to answer the questions, now I could say that I answered correctly, but it was not like that, a classmate had to intervene to save me and answer the question, I wanted to be swallowed by the earth at that moment, what worried me the most was hurting the group's grade. 

 

Fortunately, our grade was good. It wasn't all bad that day, my love interest told me I didn't do too bad and I think it was the nicest lie I've ever been told because I really needed it. :)