On PowerPoint

It's Final Presentation Day in MGMT 3420- International Marketing. My fellow students are taking their turns beating me to death with stupidity. Proper PowerPoint presentations should be the very first class taught in college. For your final presentation, if you read your slide you fail. If your slide has more than 20 words, fail. No pictures, fail. There is absolutely nothing more excruciatingly assrapingly painful than sitting through a shitty powerpoint presentation. The attorney general recently ruled that the CIA can no longer use it as an interrogation technique. As the student clicks to slide 34, they proceed to read all fourteen bulleted points, out loud, to the class, at precisely 1/5th the speed with which you can read the slides. Then, as the get down close to the bottom, every heart in the room flutters with the possibility that this could be the last slide.. hoping, maybe, please, but no, here comes ass-tastic slide 35 with 17 bullets slapped haphazardly over whatever template looked coolest to the brilliant slug standing in front of the class. The only interesting point occurs when they mispronounce one of the words they copy/pasted off of Wikipedia. Dear Sweet God somebody teach these people that powerpoint isn't meant to be a text projection system. If we all wanted to read your word document, you should have just put that up on the screen. I can read your slide. Don't read it to me.

Watch a Steve jobs presentation. Two words per slide. Pictures. Videos. Jokes. I don't even like the guy and I buy whatever he's selling.

I am so ready to be done with school. It's depressing.