Weekly debriefings on the research progress are held in front of the members of the university's laboratory.

The turn will come around every two months, and we will give presentations in Japanese and English.

Since the time allotted for a presentation is approximately 5 to 7 minutes, the materials used to prepare the presentation are usually about ten pages.

But in my case, I have to prepare a little bit of a not-so-funny amount of pages.

This time, it was 49 pages; last time, it was 51.

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It is not a matter of "more is better.

It is an important skill to summarize your progress and results in a complete and short document.

A large amount of material is burdensome for the reader, but even for me, it is impossible to explain this in less than 7 minutes.

And, well, the result is a presentation that feels like 'skip 2/3 of the way through and just present the abstract and conclusion.

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And, well, why is this happening? First, because I have been brainwashed into a pattern of patent specification writing.

Background → Problem → Existing means to solve the problem → Problem that still cannot be solved → Means to solve the problem → Solution

This is because I am stuck in thinking about this approach.

The second is to cut corners.

This is because if you put the materials together on such an occasion, you can copy and paste or otherwise reuse them when you make another presentation or paper.

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After the presentation in English, a question and answer session will naturally follow in English.

Half of the attendees (about 20?) are foreigners, so we must deal with this.

Of course, my English is "that" English, so naturally, I cannot hope to give a logical explanation.

Body gestures, hand gestures, and various metaphors are used to explain.

Frankly, it is "disgraceful".

And I noticed that one of the audience members was laughing, imitating my gestures.

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After the presentation, I was reminded of this column.

"I guess the "dancing presenter" was me."

I was pretty disappointed.