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How to describe a biology project I took college-prep biology in the 10th grade, and it went OK until baseball season. We would travel for games, and I would often miss my afternoon biology class. We were required to do a science project, and I won’t say what mine was except to say it was lame. An oral presentation was required to receive a passing grade. Each student was called out at random to present their project. When my name was called I walked to the front of the class totally unprepared with no idea what I was going to say. Seriously, my project was lame. I turned, faced my classmates and introduced my project. At that moment, another teacher came in to our class and went to the back of the room to talk to my teacher. I noticed that my teacher was not paying attention to me, so I just began to mumble a bunch of nonsense syllables and ever so often I would interject a “and that was a result of” or “therefore” and continue mumbling. The class began to laugh. Everyone kept looking back at the teacher because they could not believe that I was getting away with babbling. When the visitor left our room and my teacher turned her attention back to me, I simply said, “And that was my project. Any questions?” The teacher said thank you, and I sat down. I received a 90 on my science project! Michael Allen | Indian Trail | Union Power Cooperative |
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