Honor competition

Last Friday I participated the CSE graduate student honor competition, with a lot of help from my great advisor and fabulous labmates. My 2nd place in the competition really didn't do the justice to the help they gave me. If I have learned anything from this competition, they are: 1) I have a great advisor and wonderful lab-mates, 2) if you will present a talk to a general audience, practice with a general audience first, and 3) speakly clearly and slowly. The 2nd point is really what I missed. Many things I thought were easy were in fact not obvious to the audience, and I was too fast in speaking for some people to catch up.