Before going to the convocation at Baruch, I remember looking over the schedule I received in the mail with my friend who was also attending with me. We were both dreading the idea about wasting the whole day there, sitting through so many speeches which we thought were going to be useless and boring. One of the first things that caught our eyes was the event about the whole “sex” idea. At first we laughed and joked about it thinking it’d be stupid. I remember how bummed we were knowing that we were in different blocks away from each other. We were sad at the fact we couldn’t be bored together. When I was walking to the lecture hall with my FRO class, I saw my friend step out and he stopped by to talk to me. He was joking around saying, “I hope you’re ready to learn how to say no when you’re getting raped.” I laughed and shrugged it off, hoping that there would be service in the hall so that I could text as a last resort if I ever got bored.
Stepping out of the hall after the speech had ended, I was quite amazed. I was thinking, “Wow, that was pretty interesting and fun to sit through.” It possibly was one of the best moments of that day. The man who presented the speech was a good speaker, especially in front of a whole lecture hall with kids. I think it’s pretty hard to maintain the interest and attention of kids, knowing that we just came out of high school. No offense to anyone, but we all know someone who’s still immature. It was pretty late in the day already once we got to the lecture, but our public speaker caught our attention and kept it. He accomplished his overall purpose and made it interesting throughout the whole time. It was obvious that his jokes were sincerely funny, and that it didn’t come off like he was trying too hard. He was enthusiastic throughout the whole speech, and even interacted with the audience. He maintained eye contact the whole time, and came off as confident. I think our public speaker did an excellent job; he deserves nothing but the highest scores on our rubric.
