Lights, Camera, Let's Talk
I hit the button, and it all begins. The lights shining down, the camera recording, and everyone's eyes on me. That's not nerve racking at all right? No, it's completely nerve racking and something I put a lot of preparation into ahead of time in order to ensure my talk went well. I started preparing days in advance, narrowing my topic focus further from my essay to ensure I could hold my audience's attention. I pulled most of my information from my essay, and even did some additional research specifically for the talk. I decided to focus my talk more on the significance and impact that GMO's have had on people's lives, rather than the history and the shift itself. As soon as I had what I wanted to say and had written it out, I began to think, what was a creative way in which I could grasp the audience's attention at the very beginning and hold it until the end. After thinking about it for what felt like an eternity, it hit me, everyone loves food a...