Students and Work: You can't explain that

You can't explain that

By anonymous - 20/02/2014 05:27 - Canada - Victoria

Today, I was doing a science presentation about glucose. There were around 20 judges at the event who could've judged me, but instead I got judged by the only person in the whole entire world who doesn't know what glucose is, and doesn't think it exists. FML

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Thursday 20 February 2014 10:53

You could probably complain about the judge, explain the situation and ask for another one. It's worth a shot.

Crofty92 17

Thursday 20 February 2014 10:55

How can someone judging science presentations possibly not know what glucose is?

Comments

TcheQ 12

Friday 21 February 2014 2:20

The point of ng a presentation is to teach something to someone that doesn't already know about the subject matter you're presenting about. Clearly, you failed.