I don't hate public speaking when it's scripted.

I hate public speaking when I wrote the speech.

Thanks for saying you'd be happy to fail us all if we don't do good on this next speech.

Thanks for teaching us how to write a stupid outline and research topics like in a, I dunno, WRITING 101 CLASS??

This is only public speaking skills after all. So of course it makes sense that we've only given 3 speeches since class started.

Thanks for stressing me out so much so that I have a headache and can't get enough sleep for your class tomorrow because your threat is weighing on my brain tonight and all I can do is cry.

That's what all GOOD professors do, right? Stress their students out to extremes? Instead of recognizing efforts and TEACHING how to improve those efforts? All good teachers want their students to think of nothing but their class, including when they're frikken trying to sleep.

You can rest assured you'll be getting a great score on that course evaluation come May. I won't forgive you if I lose $100 on this deal and have to postpone San Diego even further.

-Chi <3