Speech Reflection

After watching my speech on the blog, I feel that overall I did a good job with my proposal. That being said I also found a few things that I need to work on to improve my speeches in the future. To start, I will talk about some things that I think I did well in my speech and were also an improvement from my speeches last semester. I feel that I sounded much more confident in my Shark Tank speech than I did in either of my speeches last semester. I also played with my hair a lot less and did not do as many of my nervous ticks as I normally do during speeches. As far as improvement goes for my speeches, there are a few things that I picked up while watching my speech. One of the biggest things that I feel I need to work on is eye contact with the audience. I seemed to look at my note cards a lot as a reference as well as the PowerPoint that I made. I originally decided to make the PowerPoint so that I could make talking about something like a radio station a little more interesting. After watching my speech though, I am not sure that I will do that again in the future. Although I did seem to play with my hair much less than I did last semester, I still did a few times throughout the speech so I still need to work on that. Finally, another improvement that I need to make is using filler words like “um” when making my speech. I think my presentation went as I expected and overall I think I did a good job presenting the information I had. 

Questions that I hate answering

I would have never believed anyone if they would have told me in high school that I would join a sorority in college. The reason for this is because of the stereotypes that I had heard about sororities, and it surely did not seem like an organization I would want to be a part of. My perception completely changed when I decided to be the first person in my family to rush and potentially become a part of Greek life.  After joining a sorority and wearing my letters, the same questions began coming up again and again. One of the most annoying questions that people ask me is “Do you go to frat parties like every night?”  While I do go out sometimes with friends, I by no means go out every night of the week or even every night on the weekends. Another misconception about sororities is that we get hazed before we are allowed to join. Many of my friends have asked “How did they haze you before you were allowed to join”. This can get annoying because none of my sisters would ever attempt to haze any of the new members or even joke about it.  In addition to those questions, another question many of my friends that are not in a sorority ask is “Why do you pay so much to be friends with those girls?” I found a really good quote that I think answers this question perfectly and it is “If I paid for my friends, I surely didn't pay enough”. The girls in my pledge class have become some of my best friends and the money also goes towards other things like house fees, our philanthropy, and social events that we plan. While I understand the curiosity that some people may have, it gets exhausting having to answer the same questions over and over again. I want people to see me as more than what sorority I am in and ask me questions about who I am and the things that I am interested in.