During Final year presentations....

The following happens at various times between 9:30am and 1pm.The venue is a lecture hall. The names may (or may not) have been changed, but the occasion is MSc Project Presentations. The conversions are mainly hand scribbled, on pieces of paper.

Indian guy A: After finishing his presentations, “I am screwed”!!! Will I pass?

African guy: Like I was saying yesterday, you need to convince them about the steps- I think you were not clear on the....

Indian guy A: Will I pass?

African guy: Yeah

Indian guy A: Was I aggressive?

Indian guy A: They asked too many questions!!!

Indian guy A: The reason why they asked you a lot of questions is because you were
not very clear with the multi-period!!

African guy: You answered most of them.

African guy: That is why I did not provide them with handouts. Go to page...blah blah...!!

Indian guy A: Commenting on another guy presenting “He‘s screwed”

Indian guy B: Miriam (not real name) likes bananas!

Indian guy A: Yeah

African guy: So what are you saying? I think everybody likes bananas!!

Indian guy B: I don’t!

Indian guy B: So do you like Frenchy?

African guy: What the hell is that?

African guy: We need to get each others dissertation. Because we might need it in industry.

Thai guy: Fermentation?

African guy: You never know where we will work 5years from now.

African guy: She is preparing her presentation.

After African guy’s presentation....

African guy: I didn’t know JKK would bring up Bhari’s work!

African guy: I actually thought about whether I should include it or not.

During Indian guy D’s presentation

African guy: This dude is taking something from Fang as well.

African guy: Just like a typical Indian, “how much money are we saving?” This guy is screwed!!! Wait for the questions.

African guy: He always interrupts the lecturer. You need to talk to him. It happened during MWK as well.

After Indian guy D’s his presentation

African guy: You should not interrupt the lecturer when he asks you. You wait for him to finish

African guy to Girl A: Too many slides (23), you will need at least 20 minutes.

Indian guy: You need an average of 10 slides

African guy:”Skip the first few. Go straight to Project objectives. “He looks through a certain slide, with a few graphs plotted. “Is this your own results?”

Girl A: Yes

African guy:” You have too many slides, so if they ask you to go to a certain slide, it will take you a very long time to get there.

African guy: Explain why the results are like this. Insert----Slide number.

Thai guy: Spots the list of names in their order of presentation, then writes besides a certain Ahmad.”Who is he?

Indian guy A: Write besides two names.”Distinction!! “”Distinction!!” Then scribbles
besides his name...”Fail”

Disclaimer: Due to the manner in which they were scribbled on paper, the conversation may or may not be in the original order in which they occurred. The reader has the freedom to decipher anything that doesn’t make sense, but the author is not responsible for the meanings that the reader may decipher from this.
PS: As you can see, I had to use the word decipher!! I love English!!