i ran into trouble in a master's programming for going sans powerpoint for a final presentation. Just dove into code & started showing things, illustrating concepts & showing classes/methods.
Needless to say i got a little talking to from my professor about how I should've had a powerpoint even though he got what i was explaining.
I received a slightly lower grade than a slew of people who just implemented some common algorithm & made a powerpoint about their wonderful journey (almost a direct analogue of the few paragraphs of the text that drove their ingenious work), even though I had spent all of my time you know... researching & experimenting with a novel algorithm.
It was at that point that I realized that even the highest echelons of academia can be a trough of mediocrity & conservatism.
being in a society that dictates super-linear patterns of thought/communication is a bummer for people whose minds don't work like that but still produce satisfactory (& often beyond) results
Needless to say i got a little talking to from my professor about how I should've had a powerpoint even though he got what i was explaining.
I received a slightly lower grade than a slew of people who just implemented some common algorithm & made a powerpoint about their wonderful journey (almost a direct analogue of the few paragraphs of the text that drove their ingenious work), even though I had spent all of my time you know... researching & experimenting with a novel algorithm.
It was at that point that I realized that even the highest echelons of academia can be a trough of mediocrity & conservatism.
being in a society that dictates super-linear patterns of thought/communication is a bummer for people whose minds don't work like that but still produce satisfactory (& often beyond) results