Lessons Learned - The Negative

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Jared341

Thank you for mentioning this. I feel the exact same way. Getting a 22 minute address (yep, timed it) after three days of intense competition and little sleep completely derails the adrenaline-fueled enthusiasm of the crowd.

There has to be a better compromise between getting the message across, and remembering that Atlanta is a celebration of all of our hard work. Yes, even engineers get to celebrate.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was three minutes long.

And yet is has become one of the most memorable speeches of all time.

There's no reason why Dean can't do the same.

Or at the very least, talk at a faster amount of words per minute.

// On a side note, most of the students on our team started to fall asleep during Dean's speech (and judging from the amount of head bobs in the audience, so were most other teams). So I decided to wake them up by softly playing a theme song for Dean's speech from my iPod. As he went on about the three little pigs and brick houses, Brick House by the Commodores seemed the obvious choice. It worked, and they stayed awake for the rest of the speech.