JC Presentation, learning to present

During my time in high school and even a little bit here in some HASS classes, I had to give a few oral presentations. However, I was completely unaware of what presenting actually meant until JC. The fact that for JC we had to immerse ourselves in our paper and become THE expert in it gave me a whole new perspective on presenting. This skill will definitely be super useful in the future. So once again, thank you 20.109!

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